Word: plead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel asked Mollet and Foreign Minister Christian Pineau to plead its case with Eisenhower and Dulles in this country...
...with nothing to hide, Boss Beck's recent behavior had been highly peculiar. Within the past three weeks he had: 1) declined, pleading illness, to appear before a Senate subcommittee investigating misuse of union funds; 2) turned up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at the Miami Beach midwinter meeting of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council. There he cast the sole vote against a policy statement calling for removal of union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment, particularly at Government rackets investigations (TIME, Feb. 11). After the vote Beck stamped out, and the word was that he was headed home...
...Drive. Minutes after Meany's outburst, the 29-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. council, with Dave Beck the sole dissenter, adopted a new and revolutionary code on government investigations into labor racketeering. Its point: although every individual has the constitutional right to plead the Fifth Amendment if called to .testify, union officers who take the Fifth have no right to hold their jobs. The policy is now binding on all A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliates and locals under threat of expulsion...
...Melton Mowbray is in the heart of Toryland, a section of fox-hunting squires and prosperous Leicestershire farmers. In the 1955 election, Nutting, who lived in the district, won 61% of the votes. This year, as added insurance, the government sent down a batch of top-level speakers to plead the Tory case. At week's end the returns came in. The Tory candidate (the woman head of a pottery works in distant Yorkshire) won the seat. But the Tory vote had dropped by an alarming 7%, the Tory majority from 1955's 10,780 to a modest...
...American edition of T. S. Eliot's first poem since Four Quartets-all of 34 lines long-into a book of ten pages. Eliot at Christmastime, as might be expected, is no Dickens. He opens magisterially: "There are several attitudes towards Christmas''-and proceeds to plead for the child's attitude. He cannot, of course, help noticing the cosmic worm in the plum pudding ("The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure"). But on the whole he is pleasant, his rhymeless phrases are more precisely tooled than Christmas tree ornaments, and the total effect is that...