Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it was designed to plead labor's cause and harps on a few notorious cases of injustice, Native Land is incidentally a powerful reminder of the necessity for guarding the Bill of Rights as a protection for those people who are wantonly crushed in all kinds of struggles. Despite its partisanship, it is as vitally American as Carl Sandburg...
Rehabilitation. Without quarreling with such critics, the editors of The Paintings of Raphael furnish a wealth of illustrations to plead Raphael's versatility. Of mild Madonnas they show plenty. But the editors have pulled from Vatican ceilings and walls details of composition which tourists could never properly see-gritty old men with hair in their ears, powerful brooding figures as lonely as those of Michelangelo, heavy-hoofed chargers, pictures of fire and terror, men bowed under back-breaking loads. They have also dug out of obscurity original pen-and-ink sketches, such as Nude Men Fighting About a Standard...
Last week Lord Portsea begged the House of Lords to let him sail in a 20-ft. trawler (offered by a 77-year-old friend) with a cargo of food for the Jersey islanders. He pleaded: "It is for the children, more especially, that we plead. . . . Those little ones must perish, or worse, they must linger out their miserable lives stunted in mind and body unless we help them. . . . The task of this pleading is almost too much for me-is almost beyond...
...Last Sunday 50,000 Britons jammed Trafalgar Square to hear the Daily Mirror's Cassandra and eleven others plead for a second front in 1942. Afterward they contributed $10,000 to a second-front propaganda fund...
...Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...