Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fanfare to the Organization of American States last week, is the logical outgrowth of an agonizing yearlong struggle to support the beleaguered current government of El Salvador and draw the line against further expansion of Soviet and Cuban influence. There was a grim urgency in the President's plea: "If we do not act promptly and decisively in defense of freedom, new Cubas will arise from the ruins of today's conflicts...
...close of the 24-hour visit, the Americans had little to say, but the Vietnamese, who are in desperate economic straits and are anxious to reduce their dependence on the Soviet Union, seized the occasion to renew their plea for rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach: "We seek normal diplomatic relations with the U.S., not financial aid. Nobody here ever thought that normalization would come to us via Santa Claus." Though the Vietnamese chided the Americans for attempting to "politicize" the problem of the missing servicemen, they did agree to send a team of experts...
...memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that all his malevolence really had but one aim all along: to protect the U.S. from Communism...
...poetic license that enabled psychiatrists to save Ezra Pound, on a plea of insanity, from the firing squad...
...College's pre-revolutionary years brought the 1766 "Butter Rebellion" and the plea: "Now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh not." President Josiah Quincy in 1834 called police into the Yard for the first time to calm rioting sophomores protesting the punishment of a classmate...