Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of excluding from fraternal communion" anyone who threatens the unity of the church. On June 20 the Pope sent the archbishop a personal, handwritten letter beseeching him to obey Rome. At a ceremony to install new cardinals, just two days before the ordinations, Paul issued his final plea. "Our predecessors, to whose discipline he presumes to appeal," Paul said, "would not have tolerated a disobedience as obstinate as it is pernicious for so long a period, as we have so patiently done...
...regional official's ruling that the water-discharge system was unacceptable. Promises Clamshell Spokesman Harvey Wasserman: "We're not going to let the plant be built. Our survival depends upon it." Those who last week took to the streets of Manchester could make the same emotional plea...
...advised Ray that both the evidence and the outraged mood of the country were so strong against him that he probably would be sentenced to death if he insisted on a trial at first, instead of admitting his guilt. Last year Ray's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea and gain a trial was rejected by both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time of his escape, Ray had virtually no prospect at all of ever being freed from prison through the judicial system...
...doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York Times agrees, and California Governor Jerry Brown believes that people should be allowed to ingest anything that has not been proved to be harmful...
...very surprised to find that Jonathan Ratner's answer to the question "What's wrong with Harvard students?" was so mildly worded. If his article "How Hot Do We Want It?" meant to be a plea for political activism at Harvard, he should be aware that most students who started to read his article never finished...