Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, just back from his four-year exile in Britain, professed a dull indifference to everything, seemed to be preparing to plead insanity...
Terrified, Josie-Lee went to the other woman again, to plead for her husband. Said the girl: "He's anybody's prey. If I get him, I'll keep him." As stonily, Albert said: "I've worked all my life. It's time I was enjoying myself." He asked Josie-Lee to divorce him. At last she agreed. Last week she was back on the farm with the children. Albert had married the girl, lost his war job, headed somewhere away from Tennessee...
British newsmen in the U.S. felt slighted: bigwig U.S. officials sometimes discriminated against them. To the White House last week, to plead the British case, went Paul Miller, the A.P.'s assistant general manager (A.P. worries that British officials might retaliate against A.P. men abroad). He found President Truman surprisingly willing to talk about the subject -for another reason...
Four or five times a day, Annapolisman Kiefer would get on the bullhorn and plead with his flight-deck crew to hurry up or "that admiral over there will give me hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
Master Plan. In Hollywood, heptagamous David Hardy (seven wives, 0 divorces) proposed to plead guilty, join the Army, take out a $10,000 life-insurance policy, let the judge collect the proceeds if Hardy was killed and apportion it among his wives...