Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying to Costa Rica, Rosalynn adroitly deflected President Daniel Oduber Quiros' plea that the U.S. raise its quota on beef imports from his nation.Said she: "I could not promise anything that we could not deliver...
...film society wants to show a prohibited film, its president must contact the managers of Cambridge theaters to ask permission. Sometimes that permission is easily granted, but other times (as when Harold Izkowitz '78, Mather Film Society president, asked the Brattle if he could show a Bogart film) the plea is rejected...
...right after the press conference; they had not been able to hear the remarks. "You've got to rein in your boy," Henry Bradsher of the Washington Star told a White House staffer. "These offhand conferences just won't do." It probably is a futile plea. Nobody has been able to rein in Jimmy Carter...
...Trip. A defendant in Boston, pleased at obtaining a hung jury in his trial for the murder of his wife, refused generous offers from the prosecution to plea-bargain for a lesser charge. A second jury convicted him of voluntary manslaughter...
...listeners were prepared for such a plea, since intercommunion-which involves members of one faith taking the sacraments from the other-is generally seen by Roman Catholics as the final step in the reconciliation of the two churches after a split of more than four centuries. "It would appear that Dr. Coggan is overeager and jumping his fences without due regard for their height," sniffed a Roman Curia official. "We are a long, long way from accepting the Host at the hands of an Anglican pastor...