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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Old court records describe the dark little drama-how the defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

I suspect that for my luxury, some $10,000 are spent (a wild guess based on 30 rooms each with 30-odd chairs, at $10 a chair) at a time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Too Late. The Reds saw it coming, but they were demoralized by its suddenness and decisiveness. Communist Party orders were for them to stay and work within the C.I.O. In the last hours before Murray got down to business in Cleveland's big limestone convention hall, they tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Big Knife | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Local authorities apparently feel that Princeton weekends are proper times for rioting--for they let 15 of the 16 students arrested last night go with a pleas of nolo contender and payment of costs.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Is Lenient To Square Rioters | 11/6/1949 | See Source »

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