Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...
King George VI, broadcasting to the people of his empire and commonwealth, spoke a measured, modest plea: "I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer and dedication. We are not unmindful of our own shortcomings. We shall ask not that God may do our will but that we may do the will of God, and we dare to believe that God has used our nation and empire as an instrument for fulfilling His highest purpose...
...steam roller moved on. From labor, which only six months ago had been openly hostile, Franklin Roosevelt got double assistance. C.I.O. President Phil Murray plumped loudly for Term IV, amid cheers and whistles at the Steelworkers Convention. And the A.F. of L. once more delayed John Lewis' plea for readmission to its ranks, thus spiking John L.'s chance to swing the A.F. of L. into the anti-Roosevelt column. Angrily, Lewis withdrew his application, cursing the A.F.of L.'s "servility to the Administration...
...said that no more than 500, or less than 3%, had volunteered this month. The incident irritated British Columbians, who are impatient with Ottawa's dilatory manpower policies. Mayor David Howrie of Vernon called Triquet's speech a "prostitution of the Victoria Cross"; Pearkes's plea a "humiliating duty imposed on an old soldier." Snorted Brigadier General Sutherland Brown, D.S.O. (retired) : "The Government hasn't guts enough to come out in the open...
...arraignment, The Searching Wind is also a plea. The final fiery curtain goes to Alex's crippled son (beautifully played by Montgomery Clift). With the full truth spread out for the first time before him, he cries shame upon the parents he loves, demands passionately that there be no more "fancy fooling around," no such mistakes-for any reason-again...