Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activities proved controversial among his countrymen. His plea for French unity in the face of an implacable enemy outraged warring factions. He dared suggest that the Vichy regime, which he "hated," had nonetheless saved France from "utter extermination" at the hands of the Third Reich. He feared the recriminations that might follow once the war was over and refused to stir passions against those who had stayed home and labored under the Germans: "A Frenchman abroad should be his country's advocate rather than a witness for the prosecution." He had the temerity to criticize the Gaullists: "Because this group...
...similar views in mind when they declared in the Ninth Amendment that "the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This, plus the 14th Amendment's due-process clause, was the basis for the Georgian's plea in the sodomy case...
...Tell me a story" used to be the plea of childhood. It is rapidly becoming the demand of adults. In bookstores across the U.S., literature is assuming a different shape. In addition to traditional clothbound editions and paperbacks, books now lie coiled in little boxes, ready to unspool and speak to anyone with $7.95 and a tape player...
...Black Sox," as they came to be known, were hounded out of organized baseball and into the oblivion that the team owners believed they deserved. Even "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter whom his contemporaries compared with Ty Cobb, is recalled today chiefly for the plea addressed to him by a disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior...
...threat of further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public plea for restraint. For its part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force, is planning to reroute the ceremonies from possible flash points. But merely changing the line of march could provoke more protests from hard-line Protestants. At any time this summer, the men of Orange could...