Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the riots in Michigan seemed to emphasize the urgency of Burger's plea. They began in the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson, a dreary, 57-acre fortress built in 1926 to hold 4,000 inmates, but currently filled with 5,600 convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives...
Bobby Sands spent most of his young Irish life under the inhuman conditions of a British prison, judged by British judges. His simple plea to be recognized as a political prisoner was the only way he could show his protest against British tyranny over Northern Ireland...
...repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea, "on my knees," for an end to violence...
...political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing. They may be the first generation of comics to forgo the funnyman's implicit plea: love me by laughing at me. The post-funny comics can do without both...
...almost everyone is mortal and clumsy when scandal hits him on the blind side. In the past few years an interesting though not always persuasive variation has become popular with U.S. Congressmen: the alcoholic-deflective approach. Actually, it amounts to a plea of temporary insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle...