Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent...
...acting is subservient to Hill's vision. The story is simple on its surface, hardly more than a string of incidents, most of them violent but only occasionally (and then effectively) bloody. Nor does Hill try to cop a plea for his out laws by introducing that familiar James-boys yarn in which the returning Civil War veterans become populist folk heroes by trying to expropriate from the expropriators. One gets the feeling that they would have found their way to crime anyway, as a suitable line for brave, hard men. The Pinkertons (led by James Whitmore...
...That plea, and others like it, was being heeded across the country. There was no indication that the nation's ghettos would erupt in anger and in grief as they had after the assassination of King. For one thing, times have changed; despite high unemployment among blacks, basic community relations in many cities are somewhat better than they were in the 1960s. For another, Jordan, though widely respected, does not have King's evangelical, emotional appeal to the black masses. Far from serving as the symbol of black aspirations, Jordan plays a conciliatory role, bridging the gap between...
...closer look at the report, titled "Toward Healthful Diets," indicated that the criticism was not entirely justified. Far from giving American dietary habits a clean bill of health, the council's food and nutrition board made a major plea for moderation. Noting that millions of Americans are at least 20% overweight, it recommended that these people could cut down on dietary fats, which contain twice as many calories as equal amounts of carbohydrates and proteins. It also urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those...
...members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) arrested this April in connection with a demonstration outside Cambridge's public high school had their cases continued this week without a change of the "not guilty" plea...