Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Harry Truman, who had already rejected a similar plea on behalf of U.S. garlic growers (TIME, Aug. 4), took a hammer to the commission's argument and smashed it to smithereens. Wrote the President, in turning down the commission's recommendation: "The weight of evidence does not support the claim that our domestic watch industry has been seriously injured, or that there is a threat of serious injury . . . [Domestic] production of jewelled watches had nearly doubled in 1951, as compared with the annual average for the period 1936-40." With the U.S. now selling nearly twice...
...side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days later, Naguib rejected his plea to reconvene Parliament, which the Wafd dominates. Had Naguib given in to Nahas, it would have been a sign that he was only half interested in fighting corruption...
...House of Commons, Winston Churchill gave the state's endorsement to the church's plea. "Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant and venomous things that are said," declared the Prime Minister, "but on the whole we would rather lump them than do away with...
High Noon (Frankie Laine; Columbia). A folk-style ditty from the picture of the same name. Blues-Belter Laine voices the passionate plea, "Do not forsake me," and a confusion of other thoughts, over a throbbing tom-tom beat...
...delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's stand known as the teleprompter (which spells out a prepared speech line for line on a moving band). Said he, in a political cliche with a hard core of truth: "The fate of the world is in the hands of these delegates...