Word: plea
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...Transportation. The new department, he said, could bring "efficiency and frugality" to the 35 different U.S. agencies that spend $5 billion a year working on various facets of travel and transportation. A possible choice to head it: Alan S. Boyd, now Commerce Under Secretary for Transportation. Johnson reiterated his plea for home rule in the District of Columbia, a measure that was beaten in the House last year, promised to "streamline" the Executive branch and "restructure" civil service in the top grades. And he proposed a "commission of the most distinguished scholars and men of public affairs" to look into...
Acting on Westmoreland's urgent plea for more combat troops and planes, the President in July spent eight days in secret conferences before adopting a cautious program of "maximum deterrence" calculated not to unduly alarm Hanoi's friends in Moscow. For the first time in any comparable emergency, the Administration did not order economic controls or mobilize reserves. Monthly draft calls were doubled to 35,000. The armed forces were authorized an additional 340,000 men for a total of 2,980,000. Most important of all, reinforcements were rushed to Viet...
...Down to Bare Bone." Right on cue, North Viet Nam President Ho Chi Minh answered the Pope's Christmas plea for peace with a typically savage diatribe against the U.S. Ho denounced "aggression by the American imperialists," accused the U.S. of setting up a "fascist dictatorship" in South Viet Nam, and again served up the same four preconditions whose acceptance by Washington would amount to surrendering South Viet Nam to the Communists. "The U.S. leaders want war and not peace," wrote Ho. "The talks about unconditional negotiations made by the U.S. President are merely a maneuver to cover...
Criss has destroyed the second act by inexplicably cutting out the drama's most touching moment, Bill Walker's gruffly affectionate good-bye to Barbara and Barbara's subsequent plea to Peter Shirley, an old worker, for moral support. Because these moments have been thrown away, two characters are left half-created and Shaw's irony is lost...
...made the request in recent letters to Lt. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, in a plea that he provide local draft boards with "orderly procedures" for the classification of students...