Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dialing the Life Line Centre brings aid of almost any kind. Switchboard operators can dispatch "trouble teams" in radio cars to answer the desperate pleas of alcoholics, unwed mothers and potential suicides. If a plea requires specialized help, Life Line can call upon a battery of professional men ranging from lawyers to psychologists to podiatrists. For cases that need follow-through, the organization can use the 14 homes, hospitals and hostels of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission, which Walker also heads. It even conducts group therapy for many of the disturbed people who come its way, although Walker...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...
...offering some of the liveliest reading fare in the country. When not venting its spleen on its favorite villain ("Killer Khrushchev," "the butcher of Hungary and Ukraine," "Red Hitler"), the News indulges its own peeves, such as the United Nations ("throw the bums out"), or directs a fervent plea to American ingenuity to solve a serious technical problem: how to keep small boys' trousers zippered all the way up. Joe Patterson is dead. But in handpicked successors such as News President Francis M. Flynn, the captain made sure that his irrepressible and incorrigible tabloid would go on appealing...
...single letter from Shakespeare is known to exist. Only one letter to him-a plea from a Stratford acquaintance for ?30-is on record. Such facts of his life as can be ascertained from Stratford town records and a handful of references to him by folk in Elizabethan London can easily be (and, in fact, are) completely set down in a few columns of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But for decades scholars have felt compelled to spin these few threads into an overblown fabric of speculation which the academic world charitably describes as literary biography. The latest offender is a brilliant...
...Balsar, whose crime was a $4 robbery, felt he was being punished too severely and took his case to the State Supreme Court. The higher court agreed that there was some merit in his plea and ruled that he be resentenced. In a fit of generosity, Judge Stewart Lynch reduced the sentence to 15 years and 10 lashes. Balsar will be flogged...