Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this reason Frost had to reject Swanger's final plea for what amounted to a $15,000 increase over last year's federal grant of $72,817 although he praised the basic goals that Swanger drafted in his budget proposal...
While the Administration could afford these questions when they were raised by other young people--students who were less judicious, perhaps, in their choice of adjectives--it cannot brush off this group of leaders. They represent graphically the plea of a generation that is disillusioned with this war and opposed to further escalation. Their statements are couched in the balanced rhetoric and wording bureaucrats will understand. They ooze the qualities which policy-makers and politicians admire: reasonableness, moderation, responsibility, earnestness--and all the rest...
...Texas, Democrat John Connally, after taking his third oath of office, echoed Old Colleague Lyndon Johnson's plea for legislative action to curb electronic eavesdropping. He made another proposal that L.B.J. would not be likely to approve: that Texas submit to the rest of the states a constitutional amendment requiring the Federal Government to return 5% of all federal in come taxes directly to the states. In Nevada, incoming Republican Governor Paul Laxalt proposed a "hold the line" budget...
...many 18-year-old Cohens have to be killed before the government activates our legitimate right to national self-defense?" cried Knesset Opposition Leader Menahem Beigin about a youth killed by a Syrian mine. Both Israel and Syria last week accepted U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's plea for talks on farming rights within the demilitarized zone, but the Israelis are skeptical. They believe that Syria is intent only on challenging Israel's territorial rights...
...migrant workers, research aimed at preventing massive power failures, tougher safety precautions for natural-gas pipelines, development of educational television. He urged legislation to outlaw "all wiretapping, public and private, except when the security of the nation itself is at stake." Another unexpected recommendation was Johnson's plea for an "all-out effort to combat crime." The President expounded on the subject for four fervent minutes, devoting more detail to the subject than any other single item except the war. He outlined a "Safe Streets and Crime Control Act" that would offer federal grants to local governments to help...