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...multiply your prayers, I shall not listen Your hands are covered with blood wash, make your selves clean Take your wrongdoing out of my sight Cease to do evil Learn to do good, search for justice help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow." Isaiah...
...Harvard hockey players, and especially Coach Bill Cleary, plead with the fans at Bright Center not to throw anything on the ice during tomorrow night's game against Boston College...
...Dinitz asked to see me alone. Prime Minister Meir, he told me, was prepared to come to the U.S. personally to plead with President Nixon for urgent arms aid. It could be a secret visit. I rejected the idea out of hand and without checking with Nixon. Golda's leaving while a major battle was going on would be a sign of such panic that it might bring in all the Arab states still on the sidelines. It would leave Israel leaderless when Golda's dauntless courage was most needed. (I learned after the war that at this very moment...
...boast. There remain almost to courses in women's studies, and fewer scholars to teach them. But the committee has failed because it was designed to fail. It has no power to grant degrees or even to offer courses of its own. The only "power" it has is to plead and cajole other departments in to betting up their own offerings By now, it is clear the committee is just a diversionary tactic, granting on paper what it will never grant in reality...
...other hand, if the recession is still in progress by May or June, or if the recovery seems weak and shaky, some leaders in the Republican-controlled Senate might well send a high-powered delegation to Reagan to plead for a revamping of the budget. Presumably, they would urge less defense spending and possibly even some tax increases to shrink the deficit. Says Laxalt: "We would owe it to the President to give him our best judgment and advise accordingly...