Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve their sentences. Handcuffed and flanked by a bevy of U.S. marshals, the eleven Communists were carted off to jail, a former garage, while the long and tortuous process of their appeal began...
...Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being on the outside again. In fact, he began to think, he might even get help over the radio in a plea for parole...
Communist Fiat. This throbbing plea for German friendship was only the beginning; this week Stalin continued to woo Germany by announcing that German P.W.s (of whom an estimated 225,000 are still in Russian camps) would soon start going home. Then Moscow went through the diplomatic farce of "recognizing" its puppet regime and exchanging ministers with it. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson denounced the puppet republic as being "without legal validity or foundation in the popular will . . . created by Communist fiat...
...last May Noel Field, ostensibly bound for Prague, left his wife in Switzerland and disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
...until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember his responsibility to the movie addicts who depend on him for "pleasure and escape from the cares of everyday living." And that, it has long since developed, is rather more than Author Robbins has managed to provide for readers of his book...