Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bail, gingerly peeked at a suspicious Christmas greeting from New York State revenooers. If he expected the worst, he got it: a claim on Costello for a jarring $190,982.24 in unpaid state income taxes. Further robbing Costello of holiday cheer, the federals recently vetoed his plea to let him get out of town, thus cancelled his annual pilgrimage to Hot Springs, Ark., where he might have shaken off his perennial laryngitis...
...plea for peaceful settlement of this sensitive situation was perhaps needed, but it was not necessary to appear to take sides in the issue. As Dulles himself said, sticking up for Portugal in Goa is not a part of our NATO commitments. Certainly, making a joint statement with a Portuguese governor was in no way obligatory. Appearing as the joint policy of Portugal and the United States, the statement seems a calculated insult to the Indians...
...criticism was inevitable. So, too, was the Republican reaction, which consisted mostly of insisting that foreign policy, as a bipartisan matter, should be placed out of bounds to partisan political debate. Thus both President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon praised as an example of high statesmanship a recent plea by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George for a continued "nonpartisan American foreign policy." Republican Harold Stassen, returning from three weeks in Europe, wore a pained expression as he said that Stevenson's criticisms have "raised and stirred up question marks all over Europe." The Europeans, said Stassen...
...Suspended from amateur competition for accepting expense money in excess of A.A.U.-approved limits. America's best miler, Wes Santee, copped a plea by admitting his guilt and arguing that dozens of other track stars do the same thing. The Missouri Valley Association of the A.A.U. revoked the suspension, and the National A.A.U. opened its annual convention by solemnly searching for means of cracking down on promoters whose pay-offs corrupt otherwise pure amateurs...
...Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted (9 to 3) for Cobb...