Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The graduate board was not receptive to members' pleas. "They tried to wipe their hands of us. They were looking for us to say we didn't want the club," Laurence said.
One of the State Department's most experienced China experts concedes, "You constantly get the sense that the U.S. is letting China get away with murder. But, while it may look like that, I think we're keeping them from doing even more egregious things." He refers to China's...
This time of year, quilts and beach blankets are laid under leafy green trees that reach higher than five floors. Liz, Breda, Cindy and Michelle are reading heavy sourcebooks and paperback novels, distracted by pleas to join the two or three games of frisbee being played on the lawn.
But sometimes the children get too excited. After ignoring repeated pleas by Tamika, the self-appointed leader of the ACT Corps volunteers, to put away their homework and to stop dawdling at the chalkboard, her voice takes on a harsher tone.
The arrests came a day after a meeting at the Freemen's compound at which Schweitzer outlined a plan to kidnap local officials. It was captured on a videotape broadcast last week by abc's Prime Time Live. "We're going to have a standing order," said Schweitzer. "Anyone obstructing...