Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your letter is a plea for cooperation by the Congress party in the present administration and, failing that, in planning for the future. In my opinion, this required equality between the parties and mutual trust. But equality is absent and Government distrust of Congress can be seen at every turn. The result is that suspicion of Government is universal. Add to this the fact that Congressmen have no faith in the competence of Government to ensure India's future good. This want of faith is based upon bitter experience of the past and present conduct of the British administration...
...First a Plea. On the strike's third day the Army moved in. Under a Presidential order, Major General Philip Hayes took control of the city's transit system. He broadcast instructions to the strikers to return to work at the next 5:30 a.m. shift and sent two soldiers to raise an American flag over the carbarn where the strikers made their headquarters. As the flag flapped up to the top of the pole one of the strikers began to sing the Star Spangled Banner. About 2,000 shirt-sleeved, sweaty strikers joined in. Even James McMenamin...
...pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea for letting youth, inexperience and lonely soldiers do as much for every U.S. home...
...bounced the U.S. over the rubber hump is chubby, puckish-looking Bradley Dewey, 67, who announced his resignation last week on the plea that his job was done. (After a short vacation in September, he will resume the presidency of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass.) When he succeeded able Bill Jeffers as Rubber Boss nearly a year ago, the groundwork had been laid, but synthetic plants were making about a third of what they are now. Dewey, a hardboiled, thorough man, bulled through plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey...
Wilson (20th Century-Fox), cinema biography of the 28th U.S. President, may not be the most ambitious and venture some moving picture ever made. But it is indisputably the most expensive. The wardrobe alone cost $200,000; the total cost of this three-hour plea for internationalism-including $1,200,000 for promotion-is some...