Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life as a conventional diplomat-"those pinstriped suits from Scholte; those blue and white shirts, from Beale and Inman, with their starched collars . . . big official dinner parties, with white ties and decorations . . ." Rushing to diplomacy's opposite extreme, Maclean became "the first member of the service" ever to plead to be transferred to "such a notoriously unpleasant post" as the British embassy in Moscow...
Three main defeats in the present system of treatment were mentioned by Gordon and Harris. Because they have no money and can't defend themselves, they say, the defective delinquents can't adequately plead their cases before the courts...
...Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...
...explain? The only straw for which I could reach is the impression that I had, in my emptied, vacant thoughts, of some sentence that had pleased them, or that had conformed with the pattern I had so often seen in the newspapers. And if I were to stop and plead fatigue, or poor memory, or ask to rest-the wall again, and the slaps, and the blows in the nape [of the neck]. And I remembered I would come up gasping and talk and talk and feel utterly broken...
...plead with them not to force you to incriminate innocent persons, persons whom you know have never engaged in any such activity-no response. Speak on, tell us more...