Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual and temporal leader of the Greek Cypriots renewed his plea for national self-determination. He decried the repeated refusal of the United Kingdom to permit a plebescite in Cyprus, and called on the United States to supply "moral leadership" in finding a solution to the dispute...
Atomized Bums. Last week civic planners got an urgent plea to think about the bums before the city beautiful. It came from Wilbert L. Hindman, chairman of the Los Angeles Welfare Planning Council's Committee on Skid Row, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and member of the National Committee on the Homeless and Institutional Alcoholic. "Skid Row," said he, "is a very healthy institution. It has sprung up spontaneously to meet the demands of the homeless ones-the men who have resigned from society. It is not something that was dreamed...
...based Interhandel and 1,500 of its stockholders proclaimed that they were not German-controlled; in a maze of litigation they tied up persistent U.S. attempts to sell off General Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking laws, reflecting the Swiss financier's passion for secrecy, prevented Interhandel from opening its books to produce evidence that it was not enemy-dominated. Last year...
Several applicants have answered the JV plea for "anyone in the University with experience at T-quarterback." They are John Righter, Peter Haskell, and James Brown. JV coach Norm Shepard has already pressed them into service. Other candidates have not yet taken their physicals but are expected to join the squad soon...
...other plea, for typing at exams, nearly made it last year. But true to form, it was buried at the last moment because the request for typing at examinations was made on a permanent rather than experimental basis, with the aid of certain anachronistic elements...