Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puzzled by your cover story. It is incompetent, disrespectful, and may harm the ecumenical movement and the papal peace plea...
After less than two hours of deliberation, Thomas L. Coleman, 55, a highway engineer and part-time sheriff, was found innocent of a manslaughter charge on a plea of self-defense. The defense claimed that young Daniels was armed with a knife when Coleman shot him with a .12 gauge automatic shot-run last August 20. Prosecution witnesses denied that Daniels was armed...
...demands for wage increases to the T.U.C.'s General Council, not to press them on management until-and unless-the T.U.C. approved the wage claims as within the government's anti-inflationary guidelines. The margin was thanks largely to T.U.C. General Secretary George Woodcock's plea that Wilson's demand was the lesser of two evils. But Woodcock also observed that, in any case, voluntaryism might well prove "impractical and unworkable"-precisely what most Britons gloomily suspect...
...monsignor to the U.N. as the Vatican's official observer. Last week, just as the serious turn of war between India and Pakistan heightened Paul's worries over man killing man, the Vatican announced that Paul will go to New York on Oct. 4 and make a plea for peace before the U.N. General Assembly. Sometime that day he will celebrate Mass in either Yankee or Shea Stadium and will probably find time to confer with President Johnson...
...ends with a plea: "If the Christian limited his practice to other Christians, thereby guaranteeing that the church, wherever it existed, at whatever cost, would not tolerate segregation within its body, then there would be a kind of fierce logic in its position. It would make for a kind of arrogance and bigotry toward those who were not fortunate or wise enough to put themselves in the way of being Christian. Men would knock at the door of the church to find out what they need to do to become what, in evidence, the Christian...