Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negative reaction has been gradually building," he cabled on Oct. 28. Three days later, the last message from Laingen recounted a conversation with a leading Iranian diplomat. Reported Laingen: "He made an emotional and unofficial plea to explain why Shah must leave U.S outside pressures on the Foreign Ministry were too strong . . . otherwise there will be a crisis." Four days later, the crisis began...
...joke currently circulating in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) recounts an apocryphal exchange of cables between Hanoi and Moscow. "Tighten your belts," wires Moscow in response to a Vietnamese plea for increased economic aid. Hanoi's reply: "Please send belts...
...Nighttown always threatens to burst into a conflagration of libidos, and the only firemen in sight are the seen-it-all plainclothesmen of the vice squad. They know every hooker they bust will be out on bail, back on her back within an hour and any felonious punk can plea-bargain grand-theft-auto down to a citation for speeding. The vice squad is not expected to put out the fire, just to keep it down to a dark smolder...
...narrowed the choice down to Cornell or Harvard, and despite a personal plea for the Big Red from childhood idol Ken Dryden, brought his semi-flop, semi-stand up style to Cambridge...
...daughters to have an abortion if she had become pregnant after having been raped, Reagan shied away from a direct answer. But he sadly observed that, as governor of California, he signed an abortion law in 1967 that "literally led to abortion on demand on the plea of rape." Not exactly. The rape provision in the California law accounted for only a small percentage of abortions; most of the operations were performed under another section that protected the "physical or mental health of the mother...