Word: plead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Other points made by the Catholic bishops: "We echo [Pope Pius'] burning reproof of those who have dared to unleash the hounds of war . . . With him we plead for a renewal of that basic sanity among men and nations which will establish peace upon its only enduring foundations of justice and charity. With him we urge upon the world not the counsels of despair which would describe the situation as beyond salvation . . . Foremost, inevitably, in our thinking are the heroic people of Hungary. For centuries they have been a bastion of Christendom against the outer perils . . . Now again they...
...last talk of the fall, "Shape of Content," the artist will plead the case for communication in art, as against purely formal concern...