Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most cloquent plea of the Faculty majority which last December voted to restrict tutorial to honors candidates and Sophomores of Group IV and above was that this action would in effect strengthen the system. Recognizing the drain and strain placed upon the Faculty by the war, the overwhelming majority of students accepted this decision in good faith...
...trouble because of his faith. It is shaken when sickness prevents his winning the scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with faith rather inexplicably restored...
...Information Service, with an eye and an ear to bettering Franco-American relations, added its plea. At week's end, Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, chief of the Army's Information and Education Division, granted a reprieve: AFN's staff of 28, which prepares 88 shows a week, would stand by for another fortnight. A way might be found, the General hinted, to keep the popular AFN network going. The French radio audience could still twist the dial to AFN, sit back and have a good time...
Polite Applause. But when it came his time to speak, Harry Truman could not join in the general expansiveness. Party harmony, which the dinner supposedly celebrated, had been disintegrating steadily during his eleven months in office. His first formal political speech as President was an earnest "plea for party unity and party responsibility." He knew, as well as everyone who heard him, that those were things that could not be bought with after-dinner speeches...
...promised benefits of the merger with Postal Telegraph two and a half years ago, such as rate reductions, had been wiped out. If FCC grants the company's plea, telegraph rates will go up for the first time since...