Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets have facility with these facts and these weapons which the West too often lacks. An outstanding example of their acumen is the Stockholm Peace Appeal; confirmed Communists and political innocents alike have signed this broad manifesto, aligning themselves with its eloquent plea for peace and the banning of the atom bomb. The Soviets not only collect credit for the Appeal but also claim, often very effectively, that all the signers are on their side...
...jury adjudged Byrnes $1,000 for his economic loss and another $1,000 for the mental anguish suffered. Byrnes' counsel, Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, was denied his plea for battery...
...mass donation was the result of a plea sent to the Law School student body by vice-Dean Livingston Hall on behalf of Albert R. Ketcham...
World Citizen Garry Davis, who renounced his citizenship in 1948 to plump for a world without boundaries, decided that he wanted to be a U.S. citizen after all. Back from Haiti where he had gone in protest against "American intervention in Korea," he penned a plea to the U.S. Attorney General asking if his U.S. birth and war record would be enough "to bypass the time usually required by an immigrant to become a citizen...
Nobody, least of all any responsible U.S. businessman, quarrels with anti-profiteering objectives. But is an excess profits tax the best way to accomplish it? The argument, unfortunately, has been obscured by such foggy conceits as New York's Fair Dealing Senator Herbert H. Lehman's plea for a tax because, "The mobilization of the profits dollar is just as essential as the mobilizing of human lives...