Word: pleasing
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Despite being warned not to throw food to civilians along the way, many soldiers gave into the pleas; every few trucks someone would toss off a meal. Every time I saw it, the closest kid would scramble for the package and then take it directly to an old man about...
And every year, a handful of Cambridge natives make desperate pleas to the housing office in an effort not to get placed in the House next to their childhood home or elementary school.
...Santillan, whose family was smuggled out of Mexico three years ago, spent the last several days close to death; after the first transplant, her type O-positive blood attacked the type A organs. Tuesday afternoon, her mother pleaded through the media for a new donor. "Please help me find the organs that my daughter needs to live," she said. Those pleas were answered late Wednesday night, when a new double-donor was identified...
Despite the pleas of students, cable television at Harvard has always been a pipe dream. Last year, when a working group of the Committee on House Life (CHL) met to investigate the possibility of wiring Harvard with cable television, the idea was deemed unfeasible. Six months of research uncovered a...
In spite of this, a few members of Lowell House have decided to grant the President's wish. Informed quarters suspect a more practical purpose. According to them, it is hoped that the President of the United States will lend his support to the pleas of quite des- perate Bellboys...