Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kekkonen was apparently carrying out Khrushchev's wishes in urging anti-Communists to quit-but many Finns felt that he was also acting with considerable relish for his own political gain. Ignoring the Kekkonen plea, the Social Democrats defiantly nominated Rafael Paasio. chairman of Parliament's foreign-relations committee, to run against Kekkonen in next month's vote for the presidency. The Conservative Party decided not to run its own presidential candidate, but pledged to remain in the fight for parliamentary general elections in February. Kekkonen's principal support was thus reduced to his own Agrarian...
Concluded the President, in a plea for national maturity and national judgment in which most of the U.S. could join: "Let our patriotism be reflected in the creation of confidence rather than crusades of suspicion. The one great irreversible trend in world history is on the side of liberty-and so, for all time to come...
...atmosphere as soon as it can get ready to do so. For two months, the U.S. had patiently waited, staging only underground tests that produce no fallout, while the Soviet Union set off some 31 nuclear blasts, the biggest of them in defiance of a United Nations plea to spare the world the most monstrous man-made explosion in history. Now U.S. patience was exhausted...
Copies were received at Harvard within the past few days, and though there has not yet been any organized action on a plea in the letters for support in other colleges, unofficial sources have indicated that favorable sentiment exists here in the Law School...
...apostolic letter to the world's Roman Catholics, Pope John XXIII last week made a plea for more frequent recitation of the rosary as a way of praying for peace. "The rosary of Mary," he wrote, "becomes the elevation of a great public and universal prayer for the ordinary and extraordinary needs of the Holy Church, of the nations and of the whole world...