Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Cambridge gentleman's plea, the council unanimously voted to have the Chief of Police, Commissioner of Public Works, and the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority try to find the vanishing sidewalks...
...delegates of the United Presbyterian Church gathered in Minneapolis last week, they were less concerned with religious matters than social and political issues. The 180th General Assembly heard the Rev. Ralph Abernathy plead his poor people's cause, a plea which the delegates answered with a recommendation that their church donate $100,000 to the march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which...
Harrington's plea for a cooperative ethic comes, curiously, at a time when the enforced cooperative societies around the world-the Communist countries-are rediscovering the necessity of the profit motive as a solution to their own internal problems. More important, he fails to suggest what force could replace the profit motive and still produce the vast sums the U.S. needs to solve its problems...
...special Sunday of prayer for religious vocations last week, Pope Paul VI told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "the church has great need, quantitatively and qualitatively, of brothers and sisters who will give their lives for the kingdom of God." The Pope's plea came two days after four curial cardinals held a rare press conference to cite statistics showing how severe is the shortage of priests in the church. "Why conceal the fact," said Gabriel Cardinal Garrone, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education, "that our concern is keen and profound...
...bills is painful to watch. In Colorado, the medical profession was concerned that a liberalization would place the burden of life and death decisions in the hands of doctors, but the liberalization passed. On a lower plane, in Massachusetts, "the value of life" argument is coupled with the vindictive plea that liberalized abortion will encourage promiscuity...