Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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It is possible to interpret such passages as pleas for reforms that the U.S. must undertake in order to forestall more bitterness and violence. In fact, Douglas urges "political regeneration," not revolution. But the book's perfervid tone and fuzzy phrasing-hardly appropriate from a Supreme Court Justice-garble...
...other beleaguered trial judges also had reason to be pleased with the decision. New York Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh in February had abruptly recessed a pretrial hearing for 13 boisterous Panthers accused of plotting to bomb public places in New York City. This week, armed with solid support for strict discipline plus notification from the defendants that they were ready to stand trial, Murtagh will resume their case. Just one day after the Supreme Court ruling, Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas Judge Leo Weinrott was confronted with Defendant George Kenney, who kept yelling at potential jurors...
His words signaled the end of the Kennedy-Johnson strategy of "jawboning" -exerting presidential pressure against individual wage and price increases that the White House deemed excessive. Nixon has addressed some generalized pleas to labor and management, but he has not defined his guidelines. Neither he nor his advisers have...
Even that failed. In a display of impatience with both Congress and their own leadership, some 3,000 members of Chicago's N.A.L.C. Branch 11 shouted down pleas from union officers to remain on their jobs and voted overwhelmingly to strike. The resistance spread quickly. Postal units in Boston, Cleveland...
Federal court injunctions have been issued in most cities to stop the strike, but local unions have been ignoring both the injunctions and the pleas of the postal union's national leadership to return to work.