Word: pleasingness
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A total of only four penalties were called, two on each team, in the crowd-pleasing contest that reached its feverish climax late in the final period. Cole had 25 saves and Corning 19.
The hockey team's passing last night was as sharp as John White's shooting eye, and the pleasing result was a 6 to 1 win over Dartmouth at the Arena. The victory was Coach Cooney Weiland's first in the Pentagonal League.
2) In September, after North Korean armor had been slashing into outnumbered United Nations forces, many U.S. papers carried a picture of General MacArthur looking at a captured Russian-made tank. To newsmen he said, "This is a pleasing sight for my old eyes." The Red journalists printed MacArthur'...
Eddy emphasized that publisher interference can cause a paper to color its news with an eye toward "pleasing its advertisers, rather than speaking the truth."
Now it is up to the men on the Hill. But they are politicians. They are sometimes inclined to subvert controversial legislation by letting the "necessity" of pleasing their various constituencies interfere. They are sometimes inclined to let their party affiliation overly affect their thinking and their voting. Once in...