Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward a Summit. At midweek, sensing the imminent U.N. offensive, Tshombe put out peace feelers. To President Kennedy went a direct personal plea that "as a free man and as a Christian," he name a conciliator and stop the fighting. Kennedy wired back his prompt agreement and nominated his ambassador in Leopoldville, Edmund Asbury Gullion, to take on the task. But the U.N. pressure would not be relaxed unless Tshombe produced hard evidence of sincerity-in other words, until he left Elisabethville and met with Adoula...
Pusey made the plea last June at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in the Yard, commencement Day. He said that he had heard generally favorable reaction the speech just after its delivery and has received no adverse comment about...
This line of argument is decked out with the usual trimmings: the swipes at RAND for its military bias, the rhetorical questions about who wants to survive in the "society that would emerge from the shelters" anyhow. and the final, strident, despairing plea for negotiations ("Both sides are driven to the conference table by the same iron compulsion of thermo-nuclear reality"). Nothing can disguise the fact that these arguments are of the heart and glands more than of the mind; and it is to Piel's credit that he does not try to disguise them (much...
...statements" in just six months' worth of ads, including 312 "finests," 281 "world's bests," and 47 examples of "other improbable nonsense." "Enough is enough is enough," said the magazine in an appeal to its advertisers. "Don't raise the bridge, boys . . . lower the river." The plea was saucily-and pointedly-signed by "America's First Most Only Magazine in the World." Last week, The New Yorker triumphantly announced that the river level had fallen...
Fretting about U.S. industry's "export of jobs" to lower-wage foreign lands, leaders of two major U.S. unions-the Machinists and the Steelworkers-last week urged Congress to restrict corporate expansion abroad. Next day, at his press conference. President Kennedy used their plea to press his own drive for powers to negotiate sweepingly lower reciprocal tariffs. His argument: if tariff walls stay high, U.S. companies will continue to elude them by setting up branches abroad. "This," said the President, "is a matter of importance to United States workers...