Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best." Slowly, almost passionately, he made his plea for understanding: "I have put forth my maximum effort in order to control my troops. If this was not sufficient then somehow I should have done more. I feel that I did my best...
...Army turned down the New York City Police Department's plea that the return of former policemen be speeded, told the cops to wait their turn. In the U.S.S.R. they do things differently: Red Army generals took a look at the crime statistics presented to them by Moscow police officials, sent in a division of cavalry...
When war came John Amery turned up in Vichy France. He spoke over the German radio, tried to enlist British prisoners for action against the Russians. In spite of John Amery's family connections, it took British justice just eight minutes to accept his plea of guilty, sentence John Amery to be hanged...
...kept mouse-still while he listened to the squabble over the merger of the armed services is about ready to speak out. Harry Truman has been in favor of the merger for a long time. Last week he turned down Navy Secretary Forrestal's plea to throw the whole thing to an umpire commission. He also confided to friends that he would ask Congress to pass a merger law which would establish an independent air force and put Army, Navy and Air under one Cabinet member...
...women were the celebrated international liberal, Angela Katz, author of Everyone Sleeps in One Big Bed-A Plea for the Internationalization of the Atom Bomb, and her daughter, Carrie Chapman Katz, named for the famed U.S. feminist. At the moment when civilization was whiffed out, they had been working in the stacks of the New York Public Library on Author Katz's new book, Down with Work-The Nuclear Physics of Economic Democracy, and perhaps owed their freak escape from the blast to the deadening effect of so many books...