Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damages. His case dragged through the courts while he and his family (he has a wife and three children) went on relief. Finally, last November, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-1 in Cahill's favor; in January the court unanimously turned down the railroad's plea for a rehearing. In the face of what clearly appeared to be a final decision, the railroad paid the permanently disabled Cahill, who is 24, a whopping damage claim...
Just as the Socialists seemed about to take all the credit for standing up to the Russians, the Manchester Guardian published a list of 200 political prisoners which, the paper declared, Prime Minister Anthony Eden had handed to the Russians with a plea for their release. In Commons, Eden was the properly outraged diplomat. He had, he conceded, entered a private plea with the Russians to release religious and political prisoners in the satellite countries, but he had not "handed in this list, or any other list." He added: "I want to get results," and talked as if he still...
...begging Crooner Perry Como to plug a passel of Lucky lyrics, Floridian Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing one of my numbers." Easygoing Crooner Como gee-whizzed, promised to give Composer Luck's songs a hearing, maybe a warbling...
Nocturne. In Billings, Mont., Perry Whitfield was sentenced to two years for a $1,570 jewelry store robbery, despite his plea that he steals because he is affected by the changing phases of the moon...
...March 19 Press section; although I have no connection with the principals of the "Bridey Murphy" story-except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker-I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session...