Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cross the Mediterranean Sea. During the battle itself the Allies had sunk more than 50,000 tons of Axis ships that were trying to carry to Rommel oil and materiel. Rommel may have known that the battle was lost when he went to Berlin a month ago, presumably to plead for help...
Panic buying and hoarding promptly hit a new high last week. In New Orleans one retailer said: "The customers have gone coffee-mad and now they're driving my clerks crazy too." In Manhattan, the Brazilian Consulate (representing the largest coffee-growing nation in the world) had to plead with a wholesaler for two pounds...
When he was gone, the phone calls poured in at newspaper switchboards. Some of them were from wives whose husbands had arrived home three hours late from Willow Run. The newspapers had to plead ignorance, couldn't support the husband's alibis...
...fighter program was nothing to boast about. Hap Arnold and others responsible for U.S. fighter design sorely misjudged the requirements of war. Notably, the U.S. fighters of 1938, 1939 and 1940 were under-gunned, under-armored. For this fact - and for the resulting combat deficiencies - General Arnold cannot wholly plead the natural innocence of peace. Britain went into the war, in 1939, with two fighters (the Hurricane and Spitfire) which were ahead of any U.S. fighter then in service. Both planes had been designed and developed in the years (roughly 1935-39) when comparable U.S. fighters were being developed...
...from the knowing, energetic Detroit News, the city's largest newspaper (circ. 336,014), came a different reaction. Reprinting part of LIFE'S text, the News said: "It is a harsh indictment. To much of it Detroit must plead guilty." As to wildcat strikes and sitdowns, said the News, Franklin Roosevelt had asked for specific information. It urged all who knew about the unpublicized stoppages to write to the White House...