Word: plead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...
...also contends that "all we are ordering them to do is to obey the law." Admen are also concerned about Dixon's request for power temporarily to halt publication of any ads that he considers "out-and-out frauds"-before the advertisers have had a chance to plead their cases fully...
...program here is a model, and I want to compliment you on it. You needed it to get these new industrial plants. I'm not saying I did it all but certainly I had a small part . . . When it comes to spending money on the Arkansas River. I plead guilty to being a spender." He has a pet statistic ready at hand for Arkansans who, like Alford, distrust "Government spending": "There are those who say we shouldn't send our money to Washington and get back 50? for every dollar. I had some figures checked and I find...
...patient continues in a seemingly inexorable decline, said Dr. Karnofsky, "the state of dying may be protracted by expensive and desperate supportive measures, and the patient is rescued from one life-threatening situation only to face another. Many objective observers, in contemplating this dismal scene, plead with the doctor to let the patient go quickly, with dignity and without pain...
...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...