Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between Gloria and Marabel, they've got us coming and going. I have a single plea to both of them: Leave me the hell alone...
Sons like Robert don't intentionally bring on their father's responsibility lecture. They want desperately to be responsible, but they also can't understand why their fathers won't easily forgive them. The book's title comes from an unspoken plea that holds within it all the misunderstanding and confusion of an adolescent trying to cope with a serious, suddenly adult problem...
...s.o.b.'s." Nor did Eisenhower agree with the court's decision on school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Shortly before the opinion was announced, he invited the Chief Justice to a White House dinner with the counsel for the segregation states and made a quiet plea on their behalf. "These are not bad people," Ike told Warren. "All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in schools alongside some big overgrown Negroes...
...having weathered the considerable efforts to kill his nomination, Warnke and Carter will face new obstacles. Despite a personal plea from Carter linking the success of the Warnke nomination to respect for his ability as chief negotiator, the margin of confirmation in the Senate fell short of the two-thirds majority that administration officials desired both as a symbolic expression of support and as an indication that a possible arms control treaty with the Soviets would not be doomed from the start. Opposition to Warnke's nomination seemed to be based not on Warnke's lack of qualifications, but because...
...billion program to speed up the U.S. economy, and Mondale pressed the Germans and Japanese to follow that example. But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who reflects his country's historic fear of inflation, opposes heating up his economy too quickly. Carter is expected to renew the plea, but gingerly. Says one White House adviser: "We've made our point and we'll make it again. But we're not going...