Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Manolios is wrestling with himself on the mountain and winning, the townspeople wrestle with their collective conscience and lose. A starving band of refugees, uprooted by the Turks from another village, appear at the gates of Lycovrissi and plead for bread and a chance to start new lives in the town. But, led by their priest himself, the people of Lycovrissi hoot the newcomers off to a barren neighboring hill, where they settle miserably in caves...
...Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...
While farm prices dropped 10% and farm income 7% (to $13 billion), it was still the seventh best year for farmers-and they were a long way from disaster. One cattleman, for example, who went to Washington to plead for support prices for beef, said that the drought and falling prices had caused him to lose $100,000 in 1953; if that went on for another three or four years, said he, he would be broke...
...Justice Department did plead guilty to Fritchey's other charge, that it had fired Vigil. It said that Vigil originally agreed to turn his office over to his Republican successor (as 67 other holdover U.S. attorneys have done) but changed his mind after he had won the Smaldone case and refused to resign. Then Washington fired...
...witch was ever burned in Massachusetts. The only deviation from the hanging procedure same in the case of an 81-year-old man, Giles Cory. Arraigned on witchcraft charges before the Salem court, Cory steadfastly refused to answer any of the judges questions, even disregarding their demand that he plead guilty or not guilty. The magistrate made short shrift of the old man, however; he was pressed to death with huge stones for his stubborn silence...