Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike ended early in the afternoon, when Michael J. Gormley, president of the Carmon's Union issued a plea to the members of the union to return to their jobs. By the evening rush hour all MTA lines were in operation...
...conditions that Mao Tse-tung would attach to any cooperation would demand that Taiwan become a part of Red China . . . We obviously are not going to give up Formosa." On Formosa itself: "We are going to defend Formosa, whatever the cost, whatever the risk." But Bowles did enter a plea for a "broader" U.S. policy toward China that would consider "what will happen to the whole powerful [Communist China] force over the years ... Is there a relaxation of this force, or does it explode? . . . It's not only a problem of trying to contain China. You have the problem...
...President Eisenhower's plea for creation of 40 new judgeships died in Congress-a victim of the same partisanship that had buried earlier Administration requests for additional judgeships. Democrats did not want to establish posts to be filled by a Republican President. In the interest of getting a bill enacted, Ike offered to split the new appointments evenly between the two parties, but still the Democrats stalled. Democratic leaders de cided to bet that the next President would be a Democrat, and that their party would then get a lot more than 50% of the new judgeships...
...question: Should a physician tell a patient with inoperable cancer the nature of his disease? Doctors reserve the right to make this decision themselves, even when the patient pleads for information. Says one U.S. doctor: "The question 'Do I have cancer?' may in reality be a strong plea for a negative answer...
...word rolled out like a dirge in a Philadelphia court last week as lawyer after lawyer rose to voice the history-making plea for his clients. They were 19 major electrical manufacturers, including General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases...