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Word: plea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film itself is an unexceptionable documentary: it is Jack Kennedy's dramatic and eloquent plea for "an America where the separation of church and state is absolute" (TIME, Sept. 26). But Republicans are convinced that the Kennedy forces are making too much of it. Republicans were only too willing to drop the whole issue when Dick Nixon called for a "cutoff date" on the candidates' discussion of religion.*Their intentions were practical as well as high-minded: Nixon knows that he has a better chance of picking up Catholic votes in the key Northern states if the Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Exploitation on Two Sides | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Sausages. Nikita Khrushchev's most effective and dismaying speech was delivered earlier in the week to a partially filled Assembly and a nearly empty press box. Ostensibly, his speech was a plea for "complete and immediate" disarmament, but it came out as a threat. His words dropped heavily into the hushed chamber beside the East River: "We will not be bullied, we will not be scared. Our economy is flowering, our technology is on a steep upturn, our working class is united in full solidarity. You want to compete with us in the arms race? We will beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Thunderer Departs | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...prime minister of Japan assassinated by a group of fanatic soldiers ultra-nationalists. His final plea, "Let us then you would understand," was silenced rude interruption, "No use to talk." time, the Japanese parliamentary steadily deteriorated into an ornamental which simply bestowed approval on the of the Imperial cabinets. Occasionally, , hesitant yet tenacious voices of dissent courageous few made themselves heard. them was Inejiro Asanuma, who was by an eighteen-year old fanatic last...

Author: By Tatsuo Arima and Akira Iriye, S | Title: Parliamentarism in Japan: Can it Survive? | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...weakness of community is shown too in the constant plea that the family must bear the burden of teaching the culture. In a real community, there is an economy, with its crafts and its ideas. The shape of the community makes the culture evident. But, lacking this strong community, kids invent their own, reviving the feudal code of Alfred the Great, marking out safe territories, and making provision for special classes of revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amid Missed Revolutions, Growing Up Absurd | 10/21/1960 | See Source »

...days Representative James Roosevelt will make a plea on the House floor for the abolition of the Committee, Wilkenson declared. He expressed the hope that Roosevelt will get support such as that which came from San Francisco last May, when 5,000 students opposed the Committee's hearings into alleged communist infiltration of California faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyer Summons Student Opposition To House Committee | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

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