Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator) to the job he wants (governor of Texas) was the problem confronting Price Daniel; he feared that the Texans who sent him to the Senate for six years might be peeved if he applied after four years for another position. Daniel attacked his problem with a radio-TV plea that Texas voters make up his mind for him. Last week, in response to his request that Texans tell him what he ought to do, 29,000 of them sent him messages urging him to run for governor. That was mandate enough for Daniel; forthwith, he opened his campaign with...
Help Me (Vic Damone; Columbia). This title sounds as if it belonged to a screamer, but the tune turns out to be a rather pleasant and intimate plea: "Don't just stand there and stare, help me." Damone sells it smoothly right up to the end, where he can't resist peddling a raucous note...
Legal Detail. In Seattle, Carl Floyd Black was sentenced to 18 months on a burglary charge, despite his plea that he could not be held accountable for stealing a power saw from the Seattle Plywood Co. because he broke into their warehouse to steal a load of copper pipes...
...geographical position requires her to work for the liberation of the African continent from all forms of imperialism." It helped get Glubb fired in Jordan, is now at work urging Arabs in Zanzibar to refuse a British offer of self-government. Nasser shrugs off all protests with the plea that the Voice is an independent organization, though it is housed in a government building, and its director, Ahmed Said, reports to the government Director of Information...
Savant. In Birmingham, Jessie Lowery was held for a grand jury on an illegal distilling charge despite his lawyer's plea: "Your Honor, he just has the inquiring spirit of a chemist, and he likes to put these ingredients together to see if whisky will come...