Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some months later this change was made at the plea of Chiang Kai-shek himself. "History suggests that if my recommendations had been followed when made . . . the chances are good the Generalissimo would have been ruling China today...
INDUSTRY Sellers' Market Again In Detroit last week, automakers heard a welcome plea from dealers: "Send us more cars." The market, swamped with cars only a few months ago, has done a complete turnabout. The National Production Authority reported that dealers' stocks have dropped 20%, from an average of 10.3 cars on hand in June to 8.4 at the beginning of September. The biggest reason for the increase in sales, despite price boosts, is decreased auto production and fear of car shortages...
...Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah, who has been mum about his dislike of Mossadeq and his policies, last week made a public plea for national unity in which he said flatly that Iran was facing the worst crisis in her history...
...recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith. Last week, in a 10,000-word encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those...
...principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number of Jews from death and torture, chuckling playfully as he did so: "We had better put up a sign that my office will help all Jews...