Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tsongas and Dukakis have said that they will not endorse a candidate before the primary. But Tsongas included in his retirement speech a plea that Massachusetts voters "take seriously the tradition of sending progressive members to U.S. Senate...
...began with a State of the Union speech skillfully combining a boast that "America is back?standing tall" with a plea for cooperation to "finish...
...impassioned plea reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon within the decade, Reagan last week called upon Congress to endorse another leap into the cosmos and establish a permanent space station. He unveiled the proposal just before the tenth flight of the shuttle, scheduled to lift off from Florida on Friday. A highlight of the eight-day mission will be an untethered sortie into space by two astronauts using NASA's new manned maneuvering units, which are in effect self-contained space capsules with their own steering jets...
They contrast the image last week of Reagan making a televised plea for peace with the Soviets with the spectacle of the Democrats wrangling in a college auditorium...
PETITION DENIED. To Elizabeth Bouvia, 26, cerebral palsy victim who has fought for the right to starve herself to death in a hospital because she is tired of life in "a useless body"; by a California Supreme Court affirmation of earlier decisions to throw out her plea...