Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...Medical Bulletin, the state Board of Medical Examiners must consider 50 to 60 cases of addiction or illegal personal use of drugs among doctors every year. Chief excuse offered by errant physicians: "Overwork and fatigue, usually attributed to the size of the practice and to night calls." They also plead such pressures as domestic difficulties and pain of a chronic disease or operation...
...Japan wants to boost its U.S. exports, which it favors far more than trading with Red China. But last week, as Congress began hearings on extension of the reciprocal-trade act (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), prospects were that exports to the U.S. will be cut rather than raised. To plead their case, ten gentlemen from Japan called upon U.S. officials in Washington to tell them about what is happening to the little town of Tsu-bame-and thereby told a tale of how even a small U.S. tariff change can bring economic disaster abroad...
...plead for a return to the humanities, but not merely the old humanities," he asserted in an article for the New York Herald Tribune. "I plead for the humanistic study of science through its history, its cultural contacts, its humane aspects," he said...
Einar Gerhardsen urged new attempts at "realistic discussions" between East and West. Even West Germany's President Theodor Heuss chimed in to plead for a return to "secret diplomacy" along the lines recently advocated by "the cautious and brilliant George Kennan...