Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although Professor Pope's claim is persuasive, the National Portrait Gallery in London insists that the phrase "a vile caricature" refers to all four heads in the sketch. TIME must plead with Keats...
...eventually to move to the new quarters, and thus consolidate all the dispersed Alumni functions under one roof. As a consequence, crowded Wadsworth House could be left to help satisfy the expanding space demands of the other University offices which now use part of its facilities. Some dichards may plead for the old "serenity" of historic Wadsworth, or insist that the Harvard Club of Boston is an adequate gathering point, but these hardly seem valid objections to a desirable and long-needed plan that should be successfully brought to fruition several years hence...
...Hawaii, Krug advocated the final step. In the throne room of Hawaiian kings in lolani Palace, he promised to plead with Congress to grant statehood to Hawaii. President Truman, he said, would do everything he could to obtain it. The territorial legislature had just opened with a peculiarly Polynesian contribution to democracy in action-a hula orchestra with an outsize swaying dancer...
...Trade Agreements Act does not expire until 1948, but it is not inviolate. It could be crippled. G.O.P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met behind closed doors last week, listened to both management and labor plead for protection, then planned their strategy. One objective was to force a postponement of the Geneva conference until Congress could investigate the whole program...
...Jews, Protestants and Catholics should unite against a common foe. It is not a unity of religion we plead for that is impossible when purchased at the cost of the unity of truth, but a unity of religious peoples. ... In a word, if anti-Christ has his fellow-travelers, then why should not God and His Divine Son? . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew -would to God we did - but we can meet on our knees...