Word: besought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds, however, were...
Thus last week Adlai Stevenson brought his campaign back to the populous, prosperous, vote-heavy states of the industrial Northeast. Everywhere he hitched on gently to the coattails of local Democratic candidates who were manifestly more popular than he; everywhere he besought the voters to choose come November not between men but between parties; everywhere he fingered meticulously for the soft spots of the U.S. economy, talking and implying class struggle...
...Hall. Sixteen thousand Scots sat in sirence before him and hundreds more were seeing him and listening over a TV relay near by. "I don't want anyone talking or moving for the next half hour," Billy began. Then, with voice vibrating and eyes raised toward heaven, he besought them to have faith and make their peace with God. He ended with the command: "Come to Christ." All told, 470 Scots came forward that evening to make "decisions for Christ...
...Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
...last the utility has issued a report to the stockholders. Bing, besought by the Satevepost, has dictated his memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...