Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better are the sentimental exchanges between Dr. Cornish and the young woman he loves. As his own director, Playwright Schary has only stressed what seems wooden or hammy. In neither capacity is he aware that there is an art to preaching, or that those who plead a cause should themselves seem human...
...students of Pakistan: 1) the British educational tradition, with its emphasis on cramming for a single major examination, 2) inadequate faculties, 3) language difficulties, 4) an obsessive concern with politics on the part of the students. When I was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Karachi, I would plead with my students to schedule their riots on days when my classes did not meet...
...Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...
Nehru first announced the Chinese border incursions. After hustling back to India for a top-level party meeting, Ghosh flew off to Peking to beg Mao Tse-tung to be less brutal. Unsuccessful in Peking, Ghosh went back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
...past contestants reappeared in the newspapers to plead innocence or cast suspicion, and TV reporters wrote reams of copy designed to show that they had really been in the know all along, considerable suspicion piled up against CBS's $64,000 programs, Question and Challenge. Even the great, granite TV-screen image of New York's Manufacturers Trust Company, with its dignified vice president and two uniformed guards, turned out to be hollow; the bank had guarded the questions all right, but had only the word of the producers that no one else had seen them...