Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typewriter was contributed to the campaign in response to a telegram from the Christian Science Monitor editor in Poland containing a plea for a typewriter so that a Polish student could complete his Ph.D. thesis...
LaGuardia was not to blame for UNRRA's end; that had been scheduled months ago. Nor was he responsible for the lack of planning by other agencies. Last week, in fact, he made a moving plea on behalf of those who live in the "roofless house...
Neither these words of the Princess nor the cheers of the bards carried beyond the cool forest glade. With striking unanimity, the whole Welsh press snubbed the Princess by publishing not a line of her plea. The Welsh were convinced that a Government program to improve working conditions in the pits will get miners back to work faster than a pep talk from a princess...
...Balance of the Dead. Invaded and trampled by successive hordes of Greeks, Arabs, Saracens, Mongols, Persians, Tartars and Turks, the Armenians after World War I had turned tired but hopeful eyes to the Western powers to support their plea for a sovereign, free Armenian nation. But at Versailles their dream faded, while the Turks "regulated the Armenian question" by killing over...
...urged his countrymen to answer every letter from U.S. businessmen, but he made one plea: "Don't make any comments on American politics. Never praise Mr. Roosevelt. Although he is dead, those who hated him then hate him now and those who liked him resent praise from Britain...