Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic forecasting for the N.A.M. members. Speaking at their annual dinner, he told them that "there will obviously not be a tax cut" in 1958, though neither "do we anticipate a tax increase" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Nixon also hinted at the possibility of an unbalanced budget, made a strong plea for foreign aid, plugged for the extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
...significance is embedded in a passionate plea on behalf of miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...
...Farnsworth's book is anything, it is a plea for intelligence. But as a plea for intelligence it fails to be an example of the utility of such intelligence. It gives neither evidence nor insight nor articulation to the psychiatric outlook, but instead requires the reader to explode a series of verbal bubbles
Biggest storm blew up not over the loi-cadre itself but over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
Maurice C. Thompson '60 was arraigned before Judge Harry Lack yesterday on charges of assault and battery and disturbing the peace. He submitted a plea of not guilty...