Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrapbook of 1936 came a recording of the soft, hesitant voice with the stirring plea: "I have found it impossible ... to discharge my duties as King . . . without the help and support of the woman I love ..." Millions listened to the abdication speech of Edward VIII, rebroadcast in England for the first time, as the Duke of Windsor danced away the evening with the woman he loved in a Manhattan nightspot...
...bedside radio. At Columbia University, Gleason was news editor for the Spectator, often nursed a beer all night long in the jazz joints on 52nd Street. With all that jazz, Gleason finally collapsed, quit college in his senior year. Cracks he: "I'm not copping a plea, but I did get a throat infection, and that cooled...
Comrade Venka, written during the temporary thaw after Stalin's death, was a big bestseller in Russia. Its plea for ordinary human decency is commonplace, but its point that party realism results in cruelty is so carefully spelled out that no Russian reader could have missed it. Unlike Boris Pasternak, his neighbor in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino, Novelist Nilin attempted no sweeping indictment of Communist inhumanity. Still, his little, almost boyish novel may be read as a sign that many Russians have their doubts about the Communist world...
Take It or Leave It. To Makarios' suite at the Dorchester Hotel went Sir Hugh Foot, the British Governor of Cyprus, who has gained Makarios' confidence. For 90 minutes Foot made an urgent and eloquent plea to Makarios to summon up the courage to argue back with his advisers...
Foreign aid, contrary to current American policy, is not a series of emergency measures that can be halted tomorrow or the day after, should the Russians discontinue their "economic warfare," but is a systematic response to a deficiency in the world's economy. Senator Kennedy, in his plea for a "revitalized" Development Loan Fund administered by the State Department with enough capital for long-term operation, although a constructive suggestion, does not go far enough...