Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain's unforgotten Black and Tans, he can brew the strong, peat-smoked stuff of Irish patriotism. But most of these stories, dealing with humble Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks...
...commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge headquarters filled with urgent requests from desperate commanders, from the Assyrian and Punic wars through the Napoleonic...
Bygones. In Wethersfield, Conn., appearing before the State Pardons Board to plead for release from the State Farm for Women, Inmate Mrs. Florence Pinkney explained that she was sorry she had shot and killed her husband, promised: "It won't happen again...
...Matter of Opinion. Other Southern states sent envoys to plead delay. Florida's Attorney General Richard Ervin quoted Isaiah: "He that believeth, shall not make haste." North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd...
McMorrow said he definitely favored some kind of legislation which would limit the rights of teachers who employ the fifth amendment. "Everyone has the right to plead the fifth amendment," he claimed, "but not everyone has the right to teach...