Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smilingly received the gold Nobel medal and the $143,000 check that goes with it. Then she read the five-minute acceptance speech that her husband had managed to send out of the Soviet Union. Characteristically, Russia's most outspoken champion of civil liberties took the occasion to plead for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. He also expressed his "deep personal longing" for "genuine disarmament." After the ceremony, Yelena Sakharov watched from her hotel balcony as 2,000 people marched from the university to the Parliament house shouting "Long live the Sakharovs...
...some 40 to 50 desperate people telephone "Call for Action," a national public-interest program broadcast in Chicago by radio station WIND, to complain that they are not getting unemployment-compensation checks to which they are entitled. Some tell stories of having cars repossessed or heat cut off; others plead for aid in getting emergency food. Says Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy: "It's the biggest snafu I've ever seen." He calls the IBES "the Bureau of Employment Insecurity...
...DURESS. The defense could plead that Patty had acted under unusual duress or coercion. But to make this claim stand up, the defense would have to show that she never had an opportunity to escape. The prosecution has evidence that she passed up at least one good chance. On May 16, 1974, authorities maintain, Patty took part in a bizarre shoplifting incident at a Los Angeles sporting-goods store. When William Harris, one of her companions in arms, was detected stealing a pair of 490 socks, Patty was seen outside alone in the parked car. She is charged with spraying...
...much responsibility does Hirohito bear for Japan's entry into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism...
...bonds issued by other cities; some municipalities are already finding it hard to raise money from investors. New York Mayor Abraham Beame therefore won unanimous support from his 14 colleagues on the executive committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who journeyed with him to Washington last week to plead for federal aid. With a touch of hyperbole Denver Mayor William H. McNichols told Congress's Joint Economic Committee that "every city in the nation is like a tenant in the same building." The mayors proposed two alternative plans: 1) that the Federal Government guarantee a new kind...