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...Alternative. Until the statesmen acted, the preservation of the U.N. forces in Korea-such as could still be preserved-was the problem of the generals and of their battered, much-enduring regulars. And the only way the statesmen could save them would be through a plea for an armistice, or acceptance of a deal with the Communists. By any such deal, Communism would emerge triumphant...
...plea is guilty or nolo contendere, Deguglielmo said the matter will be settled this week; the penalty would rest with Judge Dowd...
...tipped us off to the dangers . . . Yet we did too little . . . People forget. And Newsday, being people, and being concerned with other such matters as politics, war economy, etc., has not lifted its voice as loudly as we might have done. All we can do is cop a plea. The job of alarm we have done has only been fair...
...Yellow Book's plums for this anthology, preferring to collect what he calls "a fair summary" of the original 13 volumes. If this is indeed a fair summary, it is pretty hard to see why Victorians found The Yellow Book so shocking that at least one plea was made for its suppression by Parliament. The boys were more to be pitied than censored...
...Bahadur Rana, to murder their Prime Minister, who happened to be Jung Bahadur's uncle. Then Jung Bahadur helped the King murder the Queen's lover. She was put out about this, but not at the King, who seems to have beaten the rap on an insanity plea...