Word: pleasing
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The teens (a somewhat unrepresentative group, heavily sprinkled with students from two of Moscow's most prestigious high schools) offered fervent criticism of the U.S. for its arms policy and its stereotyped view of the Soviet Union and its people. At the same time, there were pleas for friendship and...
Still the pleas for her candidacy gained momentum. Finally, in October 1985, while delivering a lecture on "My Role as Wife, Mother and Single Parent" at a University of the Philippines sorority, Aquino conceded that she would stand for the presidency -- provided that Marcos called a snap election and that...
The pleas raised once more the perennial question of the responsibility of the press, as well as the undisputed need of the Government to carry on sensitive negotiations in secret. In this instance, the story of the clandestine negotiations with Iran was broken not by the American press but by...
The newly exiled revolutionary found some interest in his cause in Scandinavia but little in other Western nations. Tambo's pleas were better rewarded by the Soviet Union, which beginning in 1963 became increasingly important to the A.N.C. as a supplier of funds, military equipment and scholarships for young members...
Second, the string of denials appears to be at odds with the "strengthened internal promotion system" for junior faculty who show excellence in research and teaching recommended in a milestone report made last April by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence. Even as Spence pleas...