Word: entreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is quickly to be done. This long-range aim is what education is all about. Members of faculties, able and devoted teachers will have to do the job. I can only ask that the public outside the universities recognize that the present problem is deep and difficult, and entreat their legislators not to seek to effect correction by hasty enactments which cannot reach to the root of the difficulty and will in all probability only spread the discontent...
...Provinces." In a partial, and unexpected, dissent, the court's foremost libertarian, Hugo Black, objected to the act's requirements that offending states clear any new voting laws with the U.S. Attorney General or with the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. By forcing the states to "entreat federal authorities in faraway places for approval of local laws," protested Black, the act implied that they were "little more than conquered provinces...
...Senator Barry Goldwater to a Washington audience: "In a savage civil war now raging in New York State between the forces of Carmine De Sapio and the agrarian reformers of Eleanor Roosevelt, our party believes that it is in America's best interest to remain neutral. We entreat you, therefore, Mr. Kennedy, not to lend-lease or supply either side with enough arms or patronage for a decisive victory either way. If this fight can be kept going through 1962, we can re-elect Nelson Rockefeller as Governor without much difficulty...