Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower asked Congress to reduce his budget, most everyone agreed the request was ironic, if not ridiculous. Sinc then, the inherent dangers of the President's plea have become painfully obvious. With the Presidentially blessed banner of budget-cutting waving before them, financial conservatives and international isolationists (usually the same men) have been campaigning to cut the nation's foreign aid and information services...
Last Chance. The guilty plea on the lesser charge of receiving and obtaining secrets indicated that the Sobles had made a deal for their lives. Probable deal: the U.S. Government would drop the death-penalty charge of conspiracy to "communicate, deliver and transmit" defense secrets to Soviet agents if the Sobles would tell...
...spies working under him in the U.S., charged Justice, was an immigrant named Jacob Albam, who came from Soble's home town of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania. Arrested in Manhattan the same morning the FBI closed in on the Sobles, Albam, 64, was still clinging to his not-guilty plea last week, but he, too, seemed on the verge of deciding to change his mind...
Asking No Mercy. Editor Obersovszky, pale and taut, made a more eloquent plea: "I want to be a free man, but I do not want mercy or a compromise. I did not fight against the system or the idea, but only against those who besmirched it and discredited it, who shut their eyes, who tried to restrain the development of socialist progress and who played games with our faith. We made mistakes, but our aim and ambition were pure and honest. I do not worry about my own fate. One can get used to prison...
...spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...