Word: plead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarles, apparently sympathetic, told the Army's Brucker to plead his case to White House Scientific Adviser Dr. James Killian. The President in press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...
Three men will appear in court today and plan to plead guilty to a charge of hurling a rock into a window of the Cafe Mozart at 12:30 a.m. yesterday morning...
...show," the moviemakers advertise. "Stay home and watch television," the networks plead. "Ignore such frivolities," urge the publishers, "and read a good book!" Surveying this relentless but stimulating competition for the public's attention, TIME, beginning with this issue, launches a new weekly section that will present...
...will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...
...current cases (230 paralytic) and 14 deaths, against a total of 163 cases and two deaths by the same week last year. Well over half (279) of the victims were Negroes, mainly children under 15, centered in the city's low-income Negro sections. This week they could plead neither ignorance nor poverty. Polio was suddenly Detroit's best-publicized word, and alarmed officials began a four-week program of mass inoculations at $1 per shot, or no cost at all if a patient cannot afford...