Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make her dramatic, last-minute plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred...
...stern as well as loving. His face looks down from posters, exhorting the people to put a stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than a dozen families in his official...
...week he stood up in Denver's federal court to face the charges-four indictments for perjury, two for evasion of income tax-which had piled up during his long absence. His attorneys obviously expected an easy out. But Judge Orie L. Phillips insisted that he enter a plea of guilty to the income tax charges, took the perjury counts under advisement, and deferred judgment. Blackmer walked out slowly, lips pursed, black shoes squeaking and was driven away to his son's fashionable Cherry Hills mansion to nurse his hope of forgiveness a little longer...
Junior Varsity football coach Ben McCabe yesterday issued a plea for more personnel to replenish his depleted ranks. Many men have just reported in the last couple of days and McCabe emphasized that it is still not too late to draw equipment...
...president made a plea to the Annex student body to devote four full years to higher education. One hundred thirty-eight 'Cliffe students left school, primarily for marriage, during the past year. He commented that the academic mortality rate on the other hand was exceptionally low, averaging...