Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus rejected the City government's plea to delay his decision until a new study of the need for the eight-lane highway could be made. The City Council had contended, in a motion passed Monday, that the possible reduction of tolls on the Boston segment of the Massachusetts Turnpike might eliminate any need for the Inner Belt...
Though he was often tempted to cop the color plea, Parks instead searched for ways to win and, extravagantly endowed with talent, he found them. He became a professional basketball player with a showboating Negro team called the House of David, a songwriter whose tunes were broadcast on the networks, the author of a favorably reviewed autobiographical novel (The Learning Tree-TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) and the composer of six musical works that have been performed from Venice to Manhattan. He also became a photographer and, as a LIFE staffer since 1949, Parks has become famous for his photographic work...
...have already written to the College House Pharmacy and have told them that I would be writing to the CRIMSON hoping that this letter might be published, and hoping also that those who have also received similar treatment might join me in some sort of plea. Have students no recourse to such obvious extravagant overpricing around the Square? Anthony James Fingleton...
Other comments ranged from a simple, "The pancakes are like lead," to a plea for a little of both dshes if there were two choices...
...deep loathing toward him, but there is a growing mixture of tolerance, empathy or apathy. Society is torn between condemnation and compassion, fear and curiosity, between attempts to turn the problem into a joke and the knowledge that it is anything but funny, between the deviate's plea to be treated just like everybody else and the knowledge that he simply is not like everybody else...