Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both Europe and Asia. (In 1954 Russia proposed an all-European accord that would have excluded the U.S. from Eu rope.) Bulganin doubtless hoped it would reinstate him in his favorite propaganda role of peacemaker. Eisenhower's skillful, moderate reply not only exposed the hollowness of the Russian plea but clearly implied that the real hope of settling the cold war lay in the continued solidarity of the anti-Communist nations...
...Supported a Dulles plea that the Arab-Israeli issue be kept out of the 1956 presidential campaign with the comment that "the great principles and policies that guide our foreign relationships should be absolutely a bipartisan affair," but that if people were dissatisfied with the Administration's methods in foreign affairs, "it is certainly their privilege to criticize...
Alluding to his recent plea to Congress for a nine-point agriculture relief program (TIME, Jan. 23), the President wrote: "The Government can do a great deal to help people who have been left behind in the onrush of progress by undertaking special programs for raising their productivity . . . We must find ways and means of extending prosperity to the less flourishing sectors of our economy...
...mistrusts it. Give him a daring development project that can be accomplished only by installment payments, and he sees the point. Last week, in a not-for-attribution background press briefing, a "high Government source" finally got down to cases in the Administration's long-bobbled plea to Congress for authority to make long-term foreign-aid commitments (TIME...
...grant followed an earlier unsuccessful attempt to gain Student Council support for the organization. The Key's plea was denied last fall, Larson said, on the grounds that the Council could not support another undergraduate organization and that the present Council treasury could not take on extra burdens...