Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world. Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq unions backed the boycott. U.S. commerce would suffer slightly and Nasser's United Arab Republic stood to lose some badly needed machinery and wheat. In Manhattan, the federal courts had refused to interfere, and on Pier 16 the pickets trudged on, ignoring a plea from the State Department that such "an effort by a private group to apply pressure publicly with a view to bringing about shifts in the policies of foreign governments is embarrassing to our government's foreign relations...
...Djakarta last week, the four-man military court rejected Pope's plea that he be considered a prisoner of war, found him guilty of killing 17 members of Indonesia's'armed forces, and sentenced him to death...
...Wife's Plea. At first, Rhee took refuge in his prestige as "the father of Korean independence." In a public statement on the riots, he declared plaintively: "It is almost unbelievable that any element of the patriotic Korean people, to whom I have dedicated my life, could act in such a way." In the traditional Oriental manner, all the members of Rhee's Cabinet resigned "for failing in our duty to the nation...
Stepping to the podium at the University of Alaska in 1953, the commencement speaker made an eloquent plea: "Be bold!" Mining Engineer Ernest Newton Patty knew whereof he spoke. Apart from a first-rate mining school, which Patty himself had built up, the ill-equipped campus near Fairbanks was little more than a "moose college" for young Alaskans who lacked the brains or money to attend colleges Outside. Skeptics suggested that it might well be converted into a penal or mental institution...
Chapman's protectionist plea would find ready support from a small but growing number of U.S. producers pinched by foreign competition. Manufacturers of typewriters, fishing tackle, brass plumbing and floor tile, along with shrimp fishermen and horseradish-root growers, are asking the Government to check foreign competition. Such successful Japanese imports as transistor radios, umbrellas and chinaware are rising. So are imports of scissors and shears from Italy and West Germany, leather gloves from France and fish meal (for fertilizer) from Canada and Peru...