Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After all, Harvard, already the largest land-owner in Cambridge (and all of the land was tax exempt) stood a lot to lose from damaging town-gown relationships. As early as the nineteenth century rival Cantabrigians were wise to Harvard's moves as this wary campaign plea indicates: "Will you permit the CLIQUE of Harvard University and OLD CAMBRIDGE after their attempts to be set off from the town, to elect all the officers of the city from their own section, and RULE with aristocratic sway...
...candidates' wives openly express the wish that their husbands were in some other line of work. But at the very least, politicians are entitled to plead, in the words of the old song: "You made me what I am today, I hope you're satisfied." That plea will probably get them about as much sympathy as the jilted lover gets, but it deserves to be considered. Complacent public discussion usually turns on the poor quality of the candidates up for election. Only rarely are two more pertinent questions asked: In its demands, is the public emphasizing the wrong...
Council's first meeting since 1969 -asked the government for a chance to visit Vins and observe his trial but were turned down. Meanwhile, the All-Union Council's plea for amnesty for all Baptist prisoners has led to the release of 50 of them. Baptist General Secretary Aleksei Bichkov, however, plans no special appeal for Vins, whom he considers an extremist with a martyr complex: "He is the most zealous of our opponents. He has called us atheists...
...favorite book at one point, and I can't remember now which of us influenced the other--although such an occurrence is not infrequent among friends. Now, Nick and I both knew that Forster was a "bourgeois" novelist, but still, Nick told me of crying at the plea that Forster puts in the mouth of the wise Meg--"only connect," she says--only connect your own sufferings, your longings as a person, to other people's. That was what Nick believed: that human beings' were all pretty much alike, and that they all had similar needs; and to be free...
President Ford went into hasty consultation with his top advisers last week, emerging with a plea for Congress to vote more military aid to Saigon. For Congress to accede to his request would be a terrible thing. It would result in killing more Vietnamese in defense of an indefensible government. Congress should enormously increase aid to Vietnam--but not Ford's kind of aid, and not to the Saigon government...