Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Although homebuilding has become a principal victim of the fight against inflation, the Nixon Administration has been resisting many of the industry's pleas for special help. Several Government agencies have poured a total of $13 billion into mortgages, loans and commitments, but even so, housing production has fallen...
In the Federal Building jury room and then in the Palmer House hotel, the jury of ten women and two men argued and horse-traded for four days before reaching a verdict on the charges against the Chicago Seven-which were that they had conspired to incite a riot during...
Responding to pleas from blacks, the then New York Commissioner of Education James E. Allen (now U.S. Commissioner of Education) in 1965 ordered Mount Vernon's school board to submit an integration plan. The board turned to a freedom-of-choice scheme under which all pupils would be free...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and...
The committee's quick approval seems likely to be repeated by the House as a whole, but the bill will probably face stiffer opposition in the Senate where. Harvard officials privately hope, legislators are somewhat less prone to showboating and somewhat more tired of the Patriot's continual pleas for...