Word: pleas
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Frondizi decided it was time to throw away the carrot and use the stick. He won the support of the armed forces by agreeing to stop wooing Peronistas. Then, by radio, he made his "final plea" for an end to the strike, blaming "Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...
...lived through 40 years of Communist rule, Pasternak has had to learn to live by the rules in contemporary Russia. He turned down the Nobel Prize; he addressed an eloquent personal plea to Nikita Khrushchev ("To leave my country would be death") against the exile that the party literary hacks led by David Zaslavsky were insistently demanding. And when all this was not enough, he wrote to Pravda...
...plea for immediate unilateral disarmament was made last night by John M. Swomley, Jr., National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, in a speech to the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament...
Some argued that the Danes simply keep more accurate statistics on suicides. Said Farson: "That plea I won't accept...
Senatorial nominations remained in doubt until the conventions themselves. Williams was the only avowed candidate for the Republican nomination, but he was ignored. After considerable pressure and a personal plea from President Eisenhower (with, the Democrats charge, the promise of a Federal job in case he lost), Representative Kenneth Keating of Rochester accepted the nomination...