Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youth v. age, temperance v. Gaullist hubris abroad, the needs of ordinary Frenchmen v. building the Bomb. As the campaign progressed, successive polls showed De Gaulle's once massive support tumbling. Alarmed, Gaullist strategists persuaded the general to use more of his television time. Forced into a defensive plea ill-suited to his imperial style, he came off poorly, looked pale and haggard beside his youthful competitors. Gaullist ministers whirled into a frenzy of activity in the closing days of the campaign, but it was too late. The televised image stuck. "Suddenly the father of his country...
...would you like to do your husband a big favor?" cooed the radio ad. "It doesn't involve more cooking or housework." With that come-on, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. took into the kitchen its urgent plea for more engineers, draftsmen and designers: "Just mention Dravo to him when he gets home tonight...
...Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals yesterday spurned a plea by Sheldon Dietz '41 that it toss the Harvard Cooperative Society out of its new annex...
Despite the change, a resident and large property-owner on Sumner Road objected strongly to the Harvard proposal. Norman Swartz pleaded for a two-week postponment on Council action. "We only learned of this last Friday," he declared. His plea was rejected
...gang of toughs between Negroes and their constitutional rights." Speaking of Washington Negro Lemuel Penn, who was murdered while driving on a Georgia highway last year, Marshall argued that the court could rule that Section 241 protects the federal right to interstate travel. Even if Marshall's plea saves the indictment, the Government may have to prove that Penn's killers actually intended to deprive him of that right-not just gun down another Negro...