Word: plead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they plead that funds should flow through civil, not military channels. Apparently Bush stands with them...
...story of his professional career in what strikes him as the proper public light (despite his specialized knowledge of the Japanese language and Japanese navy, Annapolis-trained Ellis Zacharias remained a captain during World War II, reached flag rank only at his recent retirement). The others are: 1) to plead the case for broader and better U.S. naval intelligence; 2) to blast away at U.S. naval stupidity; 3) to make sure that nobody undervalues the particular intelligence work in which Ellis M. Zacharias was concerned...
Last week the bold career of 28-year-old Charlie Edwards suddenly collapsed. Los Angeles police, tipped off by investigators from the state bar association, jailed Charlie on a half-dozen local and federal counts. His counsel indicated that Charlie would plead insanity because of a brain tumor. Said Charlie: "Sometimes I do seem to get dizzy spells...
...British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to see Hamburg's dignified Oberbürgermeister Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, and plead with him to intervene with British authorities...
Winter's Tale. In Omaha, Dorothy Snow wisely chose Lawyer Frank Frost to plead her divorce case...