Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conditional Concessions. Japan, dependent on the U.S. to absorb 30% of its exports, last month sent eight top businessmen to Washington to plead against such backward steps. The delegation returned to Tokyo in gloom. "We are not optimistic at all," said the group's leader, Chairman Kiichiro Sato of Mitsui Bank. "Japanese business must start thinking seriously of countermeasures." As the Japanese see it, the repercussions of U.S. protectionism, both economically and politically, are unestimable...
...dropout, unsuccessful employee and law violator. Stripped of selfesteem, this loser compensates by hating and hurting life's winners. And the U.S. criminal-justice system all too often reinforces his contempt for society's values. If the suspect cannot afford a skilled lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial. For the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences...
Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...
...legal aspects of the Ad Board's disciplinary function. Although the Board metes out punishment ranging from admonition to severance, it does not allow accused students or their lawyers to plead their cases...
FEDERAL AID Going it Alone Most college leaders, public and private, plead for more federal funds as the only way out of a cash crisis that grows increasingly serious each year...