Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more money (though he received an annual trust income of $32,000). The lawyer also played one of Bronfman's tapes. He seemed to hint that Bronfman was not really a kidnap victim but just acting the part, because Sam's voice trails off in a final plea to his father-"O.K., Dad, that's it"-only to reappear a moment later saying briskly, "Do it again." Finally, the prosecution's own witnesses, two FBI agents who questioned Byrne after they had found Bronfman, could not agree on what questions they had asked or what Byrne...
...nerve. Overlong and preachy, exaggerated even within the bounds of satire, the movie nonetheless has the power of a frightening revelation (TIME, Nov. 29). Like the Frank Capra films of the '30s and '40s (particularly Meet John Doe), it is half entertainment and half message, a populist plea for the individual against inhuman institutions. But unlike the movies of those optimistic days, there is no happy ending...
...months ago for the murder of a 25-year-old motel clerk in Provo, Utah, Gilmore was being given the right to die. After a steamy two-hour hearing before the state board of pardons, the board voted 2 to 1 to grant the condemned man's plea that he stand "like a man" in front of a firing squad in the first U.S. execution in almost a decade. The following day, District Court Judge J. Robert Bullock set the execution date for sunrise, Dec. 6, just two days after Gilmore's 36th birthday. "That's acceptable...
...about the last reason that Carter's advisers see for hesitating on a tax cut. Indeed some, including his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein, urged Carter to call for a reduction late in his campaign. Others successfully opposed the idea on two grounds: 1) such a plea might look like an attempt to buy votes and backfire politically; 2) it seemed possible at the time that federal spending, which fell $11 billion below target levels in the first nine months of 1976, might surge about that much above expectations in 1977 and stimulate the economy enough to make...
...prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria at Crathie Church near Balmoral Castle, MacGregor appealed to the Almighty to "send down his wisdom on the Queen's ministers-who sorely need it." The plea caused some commotion in the royal pew. Writes Historian Charles: "Queen Victoria went purple with suppressed laughter...