Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summation with twitching eyes and hands in his lap, the fingertips lightly touching each other. The rocklike immobility of his body gave spectators the impression that rigor mortis had already set in. This week Eichmann's West German attorney. Dr. Robert Servatius, will base his final plea for the defense on the question of the court's jurisdiction and impartiality...
...that he has written in the past 40 years. Using A. E. Housman's litmus for a true poem ("Does it make the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently while shaving?"), many readers will be moved to heed the author's plea and consider him first of all a poet...
...Began debate in the Senate on President Kennedy's $4.4 billion foreign aid bill. The key issue: the President's "fiveyear plan" giving the Administration borrowing authority to make longer-term commitments to needy nations. Opening the debate with an impassioned plea for approval of the Kennedy program. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas said that opposition to the proposal "just proves that we still are not very far away from tribal society. The only thing we ever do with enthusiasm is getting ready to bash somebody in the snoot...
...that would give the sect first-class citizenship. Members of Bene Israel held a rally at which they threatened to resort to passive resistance and to stop all immigration from India. This possibility led Executive Chairman Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency to make a private plea to Nissim to change his ruling, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, who faces general elections in three weeks, told a mass meeting: "The Jews of Bene Israel are Jews like all other Jews, and there is no basis for disqualifying them...
...Western Europe, where 109 automakers already vie for the business. France's Pierre Dreyfuss, president of state-owned Renault, pleaded with Detroit not to make a bug-sized car for Europe in direct competition with Renault, Volkswagen and Italy's gnatty Fiat. Henry Ford called Dreyfuss' plea "disgraceful," and is going ahead with plans for a Volkswagen-sized Ford, now dubbed the Cardinal...