Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dire financial straits, Frau Feix got a lawyer to plead her case. Last week, deadlocked on practically everything else on the agenda, Austria's Big Four High Commissioners reached agreement on the case of the kindhearted landlady. They decided that Frau Feix might sell the three rings, keep the proceeds in payment for Samaritan services to her boarder...
...paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...
...high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet ... [He will find] that the credit built up so rapidly by the valor of the Red Army...
...although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...
Italy's old Count Carlo Sforza entered its wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...