Word: pleasingness
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Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan.
Yugoslavia, according to St. John, was loaded down with physical burdens but miraculously buoyed up by love for Marshal Tito. Volunteers laboring on "the 1946 Youth Railroad" sang joyous songs declaring that "America and Britain will be proletarian lands some day too." "Brigades" of sun-bronzed youths, encamped in "pleasing...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected...
Books of verse worth looking into: John Betjeman's Slick But Not Streamlined, mildly satiric and pleasing pieces by a little-known Englishman; Stephen Spender's Poems of Dedication, grave and moving but often prosy; Karl Shapiro's Trial of a Poet, explorations into the relation of...
Ratner has no formula for pleasing both "classes and masses," other than to "take the serious stuff and put it into mass language." But radio is gradually closing the gap anyway, he believes: "The professor is discovering Jack Benny and the ditch digger is discovering symphony at the same time...