Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wouldn't do any good for us to make a plea," Monro explained. "What the boards are interested in is the circumstances of a student's absence...
...want to demand that the United continuing effort to obtain a negotiated peace, just to both sides, and that the government should not use its plea for 'unconditional discussions' as a shield for States government make an earnest and the continuation...
...House debate, New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made an impassioned plea. "We have trifled with fate long enough on this question of presidential inability," said Celler. "We can no longer delay. Delay is the art of keeping up with yesterday. We must keep abreast of tomorrow." But some Representatives had misgivings. Said Ohio Republican Clarence Brown: "Under certain circumstances, a vacancy could exist in the vice-presidency and a President could name a billy goat as Vice President and some Congresses would approve of that nomination...
...cause is steadily gaining converts among U.S. Governors, such as Tennes see's Frank G. Clement, whose recent plea for abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence...
Purim holiday, angry pickets outside the Knesset were in no festive mood as they jostled police and waved placards denouncing the government motion. But for all the emotionalism, in the end Eshkol's plea for wise hearts-along with party discipline-prevailed; by a vote of 66 to 29, with 10 abstentions, the Knesset voted to establish diplomatic ties with West Germany...