Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rifles cracked out shots in the back-Italy's idea of a supremely disgraceful Death. Throughout Jugoslavia, where Il Duce is detested as the National Enemy, furious indignation was roused by news that the Facist garrison commander at Trieste had refused to transmit to King Vittorio Emanuele a plea for pardon signed by the Jugoslav youths. If His Majesty had pardoned them, Italian fury would probably have swept him from his Throne-for even Italians who hate Mussolini hate Jugoslavs ten times more...
Toward midnight Boatswain R. Anderson of the Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. 215 sighted the Sabalo's wavering beacon, overtook her. What happened next was a matter of strange dispute. Capt. Kelley later charged that C. G. 215 ignored his plea for help and steamed away. Boatswain Anderson insisted his offer of aid had been declined, that he had trailed the Sabalo which, he said, steamed for about an hour with its searchlight turned...
Ruskin Golding and Paul Dickey, for whom the plea of inexperience may not be urged...
Cinemactor Rex Lease paid a $50 fine at Malibu Beach, Calif, for punching the eye of Vivian Duncan, dancer. His plea: self-defense. Her charge: he took the keys to her car, advanced...
Last week New York, still by far the biggest U. S. city, still second in the world, awaited the Census Bureau's decision on the plea of Atlanta, Ga. that it be allowed to include Greater Atlanta, as London does Greater London, in its census count. If the Bureau refuses Atlanta's request, it lends official U. S. support to New York City's claim to first place among world metropolises...