Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kimathi had only the memory of past power to sustain him. Despite the fact that it carried the death penalty, even the charge against him-carrying a loaded revolver-was a humiliation to a chieftain who had once ordained life and death for hundreds. His defense was a meeching plea that he was coming out of the forest to surrender when he was captured. "But he could have surrendered to a police post nearer home," one of the Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed out, and the other two agreed. "Kimathi did not come out of the forest...
President Eisenhower last week backed up Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom in a plea for prompt use of the 17 million doses of polio vaccine now stockpiled by manufacturers, plus untold millions in drugstore and health-department refrigerators. Targets: children who have had less than the recommended three shots, and adults, who are in time to get three shots before midsummer if they act promptly...
...undergraduate college alone) in educational history, he knew that he would have to answer one inevitable question: Why does Harvard, with the biggest university endowment in the U.S., need so much new money? Pusey's reply, which is now going out to alumni, is more than just a plea for Harvard. It is a dramatic description of the ever-expanding needs and challenges of U.S. higher education...
...income from it has doubled in 25 years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the college have quadrupled . .. President Lowell said in 1921, 'Universities, if successful, must be beggars, and the better work they do the more they must beg.' The plea I now make for Harvard College becomes by extension a plea for all higher education. All colleges and universities that are alive are in need...
Next, the Council heard a plea from Peter W. Gross '58, who, along with several other students, had made extensive inquiries into the United Nations' agency now working for Hungarian relief. Gross pointed out that the UN money would be distributed among all the refugees, and that of all the refugees, and that of all age groups, students seemed probably best able to take care of themselves. He also observed that the name of the UN would probably attract more donations from the University at large than would the relatively unknown...