Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complain about assignments and deadlines, most students, not yet ready for independence, find security in this kind of regimentation. Many a class troublemaker who harasses his teacher is selfconsciously pursuing a reprimand. I recall one unruly college freshman who came unbidden to my office with a plea that I shall never forget: "I know my behavior is lousy. Can you make me stop?" Yes, I probably...
Private Problem. Monroney would spend the money on new flight-control systems and more metropolitan-area airports, with a view to handling the future's jumbo superjets and supersonic transports. He defends the plea for earmarked special funds by citing the already overwhelming load of education, poverty programs and the Viet Nam war on the nation's general revenues. As if to underscore that point...
...decided to reduce the charge to first-degree manslaughter; the defense agreed to plead guilty to that charge. Noting that "I think courts have to use the best devices available," Judge William Carpenter, 35, agreed to allow the tape to be shown to the jury, after which the manslaughter plea was accepted. Kidwell now faces a five-to 30-year sentence (which could be suspended entirely) instead of the life sentence he received at his first trial...
When Hubert Humphrey called him a "one-issue candidate," McCarthy responded by hitting hard on housing, unemployment and civil rights, linking these three issues into a plea to integrate the suburbs and get Negroes into the U.S. mainstream. Discussing Viet Nam, he reiterated his opposition to bombing north of the DMZ, but saw "no quick or easy steps" for settling the war. McCarthy rejected the notion of a precipitous pullout, observing that the U.S. should draw back to a somewhat vague point "where you can expect the South Viet Nam government to assume major responsibility...
That story suited L.B.J. fine, wrote Lewis. "It constituted an almost perfect pitch for a silence-is-golden plea while he continues his effort to win the Viet Nam war with present policies." But the story didn't suit Lewis, whose sleuthing disclosed that Blondin was an imperturbable craftsman. He was a child prodigy on the rope at six. By the time he tackled Niagara at 36, he was able to go across once on stilts, another time with both feet in a sack, once again with a man on his back. On one occasion he sat down...