Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discreetly, the British permitted meetings. Promptly, King Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio and even Sicilian-born World War I Premier Vittorio Orlando jumped to their microphones to plead with Sicilians to remember their political ties. In April Badoglio thought it wise to appear in person, but the agitation continued. To many Sicilians, a snug little island kingdom nestled against the protecting ribs of the British lion looked good...
Twice he went before the parole board to plead for freedom, and was twice refused. Last week, after three years and ten months behind the walls, he went before the parole board for the third time. He was now 67. His ruddiness was gone, and he looked thinner; his hair was white. He talked quietly, affably, but the suspense under which he was obviously laboring crept into his voice. The board conferred, granted him his parole. Then they laid down the terms under which he can keep his freedom when he goes into the world again on Sept. 12, with...
...Many a Jap civilian did beg our people to put him to death immediately rather than to suffer the torture which he expected. But many who chose suicide could see other civilians who had surrendered walking unmolested in the internment camps. They could hear some of the surrendered plead with them by loudspeaker not to throw their lives away...
...World War I to pull to gether for treaty-guaranteed press access to information and communications throughout the world. The Knight-prodded ASNE planned to start by urging its aims on the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic conventions. Publisher Knight named a strong committee to plead the cause there and elsewhere...
...Senate Committee session where Messrs. Nelson, Forrestal and Patterson appeared to plead for a work-or-fight law only three Senators showed up out of 18 on the Committee. And all three announced themselves as against the bill. Even the bill's two Senate sponsors, North Carolina's Bailey and Maine's Brewster, confessed they were about ready to give...