Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary of India's freedom, Indians massed along ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi to hear Prime Minister Nehru plead for calm in that nation's tense crisis with: 1.China...
...research buildings of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Two years earlier, in the Eastern sector, the Soviets had reopened the old University of Berlin. But they did little more than repeat the Nazi patterns of corruption. A disgusted group of students and professors went to Generals Clay and Howley to plead for a decent school. From the A.M.G. and the West Berlin government of Mayor Ernst Reuter they got money and equipment for a shoestring start...
Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
Seretse has been living in London with his wife and baby daughter on a ?1,000-a-year government allowance; Tshekedi stayed with a neighboring tribe in Bechuanaland until he turned up in London last March to plead his case...
Cardinal Sarto's election to the papacy in 1903 came as a surprise to him. When he saw the balloting swinging in his favor, he rose to plead passionately with his brother cardinals not to elect him to a post for which he felt himself unfitted and unworthy. But his eleven-year reign was packed with decisions that have proved historic for the Roman Catholic Church...