Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing Madame Chiang was determined not to do was plead. Back in 1938 she wrote a Wellesley classmate, Miss Emma Mills: "I want to go to America, but I do not want any visit of mine marked by a belief that I am coming on a begging expedition." And so she spoke as an equal...
Milton in 1943 would plead just as eloquently for freedom of the air waves as he did for freedom of the press; so would Thomas Jefferson. As the influence of radio becomes increasingly far-reaching, its extent and method of supervision must be watched all the more carefully. Up to now, freedom of the air waves has not been dangerously impaired, but the mysterious censorship of the political charges of radio commentators is the first step in the opposite direction from which we want to travel...
...House of Husher. In Manhattan, Burglar Pat Moriarty, in court charged with carrying burglars' tools, refused to plead guilty as a fourth offender unless the court clerk whispered when he recited Moriarty's criminal record. The judge agreed to the arrangement, in a whisper. The clerk questioned Moriarty, in whispers, conveyed each answer to the judge, in a whisper, and finally the judge leaned across the bench and whispered, "I sentence you to 15 years to life imprisonment." Whispered Moriarty, "Thanks...
...Defense. All this, reported the Congressmen, was known to Jerry Land's Maritime Commission, which did no more than plead with South Portland Ship for better performance and belatedly hire a skilled production man to have charge of operations...
...Caesarean sections were done three times during my 18 months in the service with 100% fatality. . . . Thyroid operations were preceded by doses of opium or digitalis or both. In many cases a resection [removal] of the entire gland was done. I, personally, plead guilty. . . . The operation was a very easy one-a complete resection of both lobes and isthmus, with the usual speedy outcome-death within 24 hours...