Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road that cuts through the green hills along the border. Under such pressure Duvalier finally relented and at week's end allowed the asylees to begin flying out of Haiti. Color Line. With most Latin American nations standing against him, Duvalier sent an emissary flying to Manhattan to plead his case before the United Nations Security Council. Haiti's Foreign Minister René Chalmers pictured poor Negro Haiti as surrounded on all sides by enemies. "The Haitian people are determined to defend their sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black...
...idea for an Israeli mutual fund originated with Michael Haft, a 39-year-old Israeli economist sent to the U.S. to plead for investment funds at parlor meetings. Haft did not like the unbusinesslike approach. Says he: "The time has come to stop singing the Hatikvah [Israel's anthem] to raise a dollar." Instead Haft settled on mutuals, hoped that $10 million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid...
...passed in 1958 forces the employer to pay fringe benefits and bonuses that double the basic wage. Even at that, housewives are combing the desperately poor regions of Sicily and Sardinia for the underprivileged, down to eight-year-old orphans who cook while standing on kitchen stools. Classified ads plead for servants with various blandishments, including medical care and pensions to a maid's parents...
...your critic would have no way of knowing this, but please, just for the record, I designed all of Judy's costumes for the picture with the exception of one. Uh-huh. You're right. I don't know how that red number slipped in. I plead innocent. Hollywood gremlins, I imagine...
...chant, "We're the best! We're the best!" and carry placards reading "Bravo!" They have a Meet Your Orchestra radio program that features chummy interviews with tuba players and treats double-bassists like second basemen. They have been known to stop musicians on the street to plead for autographs and crowd the stage door after concerts to shake the hands of fiddlers. And in store windows all over town, they mount pictures of their hero, the glowering, inescapable Maestro George Szell...