Word: pleasing
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The search for a strategy to end the civil war without giving in to the fundamentalists lay at the heart of the presidential campaign. Sheik Mahfoud Nahnah, 53, the avuncular leader of the moderate fundamentalist Hamas party (unconnected to the Palestinian group of the same name) came in second with...
Powell had lived, for roughly the past year, in the Haze. The crowds kept growing. Their praise and pleas were a river carrying him swiftly past all the rules and rites that attend a race for the presidency. Pundits talked of his star quality, the ability to make a room...
As an actress, Andrews has been something of a prisoner, heaven knows, of the sweetness she personified so memorably in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. A musical about transvestites and mobsters, set in gay Paree, might seem quite a departure. But in the end there's something excessively...
Cambridge resident Robert J. La Tremouille criticized officials of the Inn at Harvard, which is owned by the University, for failing to respond to his pleas for police help when he was recently attacked outside the hotel by a group of teenagers.
What we have here are two mutually reinforcing strains of paranoia. On one hand, blacks are so suspicious of whites that many seriously believe aids is a genocidal plague cooked up by the cia. That is the flip side of the fear that makes many white women clutch their purses...