Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spark for the Tinder. Nationalist authorities privately expected that the court would find Reynolds guilty and let him off with two or three years in jail. Instead, the court-martial's verdict last week, on a basic plea of self-defense, was "not guilty." By this time, emotions were running so high that Reynolds, his wife and seven-year-old daughter had to be rushed out to Taipei airport escorted by 67 police, hustled aboard a U.S. Air Force plane and flown off to Manila...
...Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the Federal Government about our basic rights . . . We will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision...
...authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...
...clangs and hoots echoed through the ship, officers and men tumbled out of bunks, rushed headlong for battle stations. No one seemed to hear the PA system's agitated plea: "Belay that last order!" Meanwhile, the bridge pirates headed for the officers' quarters. Finally a steward asked them the question no one had thought of before: "What are you doing here?" "Of course," says Lennon, "we didn't have any answer...
...Security Storm. Herbert Brownell became acquainted with this loneliness in his first days as Attorney General. When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he found on his desk the plea for clemency of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Brownell recommended against clemency. The Rosenberg execution was set for the Friday of June 19, 1953, at dusk because the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown. Worldwide pressure against the execution was tremendous, the Pope used his good offices for mercy, more than 5,000 pickets chanted party-line slogans in front of the White House. Brownell quietly advised the President to go ahead...