Word: pleaded
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Crucial Decision. The scheme was effectively killed on April 3, 1954, when Dulles and Radford met with eight legislative leaders to plead for Congress' support. Johnson, who was among the legislators, reportedly asked how many allies had been invited to join with the U.S. Because of the shortage of time, none had, and the lawmakers told Dulles that Congress would not support an attack without allied support...
...unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that he wished without a fight, that he could hand all his weapons to his enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that in his unconscious, when he boarded the train he was mounting an ass to ride into Jerusalem...
Aside from the approved negotiations by which criminals are induced to testify, to plead guilty, to surrender themselves, or to tip off the police, there is a degree of accommodation between the police and the ciiminals--tacit or explicit understandings analogous to what in military affairs would be called the limitation of war, the control of armament, and spheres of influence...
...wasn't the only one. National attention is focused on the small Cambridge courthouse where Bailey--attorney for Sam Sheppard and Carl Coppolino in sensational trials last year--intends to plead insanity for the 35-year old local handyman--named as the Boston Strangler in a best-selling book by Gerald Frank...
...went with George Patton. Temperamentally Marshall had nothing in common with the gaudy, poeticizing, rich, vain, bombastic, blasphemous fire eater. Once, Patton pressed his luck too far. At a private dinner, he used his friendship with Marshall to plead for a demoted colonel who had criticized the War Department. Said Marshall: "I am speaking now as the Chief of Staff to General Patton, not to my friend General Patton. You have encouraged the colonel in his attacks, and you have destroyed him. I will not promote him; never mention it to me again...