Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of keeping the secret from her. As her attacks increase, Judge Cooke finally decides to execute a "mercy killing," and one night deliberately wrecks the automobile in which he and his wife are driving. Immediately after, he confesses the entire crime and is brought into court. His plea of "guilty" collapses when his counsel unexpectedly proves that in reality Catherine Cooke did know of her illness, and had died by her own hand before the time of the accident...
...year, Chaplain Harris must turn up at each meeting of the Senate; custom dictates a different prayer each day. In olden days the Senate asked less of its chaplain: only legislative days were opened with prayer. But in 1939 the Senators decided that they should make a plea for divine guidance every time they met. Dr. Harris does not let his duties on Capitol Hill interfere with his regular work at Foundry Methodist Church, where next fall he will celebrate his 25th anniversary as pastor...
...plea for moral courage, Insight and Outlook might have made a simple and admirable essay by a man who has shown plenty of courage in his day. What the reader will find irritating and incomprehensible is that Author Koestler has let his self-assertive impulse so surround his simple theme with scientific stage props and mechanistic explanations that his 1% of inspiration demands 99% of his readers' perspiration...
Mikkola reiterated his long-standing plea for more men to come out for the squad. "We have to have some depth," he implored. "Snow is the only pole valuator on the team and Ravreby the only shot putter," Mikkola said. "There are several events in which we have only two men and in others only three...
President Truman's plea for federal aid to the housing industry will get a "liberalized version" of the 1947 Taft- Fliender-Wagner Bill from the 81st Congress, G. Holmes Perkins '26, professor of Regional Planning, told the CRIMSON yesterday...