Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only thing was, Scranton got so busy ad-libbing that he cut his speech-and in the process, left out that wry but realistic plea for party solidarity...
...song evolves from a tone of calm suggestion to one of a frantic plea. But after a highly evocative sexual passage--which cannot be transmitted to the printed page--he closes with almost defiant self-assertion...
...three feet from the curb. So sure was Miss Hunter of her innocence that she refused to heed court summonses to answer for her highway misdeeds. A policewoman finally had to climb through her apartment window to arrest her. In court last week. Miss Hunter declined to enter a plea, said: "I don't think the question of guilt enters into it." The court thought otherwise, fined her a total...
Item. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, made a public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...
...year later, Prime Minister Diefenbaker scored a massive victory of 208 seats in the Commons. This, the 1957 election, was won almost single-handedly by the Prime Minister with his evangelical plea of "give me a mandate" as he toured the country, begging for a decisive majority with which to carry out the programmes promised in the 1956 election...