Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballroom at which Cheit tried to defend use of the police and the table-manning rules, but drew hoots and jeers. His efforts were further squelched by cries of "Savio, Savio" as the former Free Speech leader, free on bail, arrived to take the stage, deliver a rambling plea for a student strike. Savio's wife Suzanne also showed up to urge a strike. On a quick show of hands, with no chance for a negative vote, the strike was approved. A closely divided student-government council later voted 9 to 8 to endorse the strike...
...Draft & a Plea. Jordan's Arab partners further inflamed the tense atmosphere by issuing repeated calls for action. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser blasted Hussein for refusing to arm frontier villages-a step he began to take at week's end. In Cairo, the Palestine Liberation Organization called for Jordanian police and security forces to join the riots rather than repel them. Syria bombarded Jordan with broadcasts charging that Hussein's Cabinet and army were in revolt and that Jordan's "liberation" had begun...
...Plea for Flexibility. Volkswagen is also puzzled over how to design an impact-absorbing steering column for its boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder...
...ACLU plea was prompted by the surrender of membership lists by the University of Michigan and University of California at Berkeley when they were subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee last August...
...plea was as old as justice itself. You have the wrong man, argued Timothy Evans, who was charged with strangling his wife and infant daughter. The real killer, he swore, was the prosecution's chief witness, John Christie. Neither judge nor jury was impressed, and in 1950 Evans was hanged in a London prison...