Word: pleaded
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...around, clean their face with it.” The album’s most exquisite song, “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl,” is deliciously mindful of its otherworldly charm as voices, digitally altered to sound like a choir of elven children, plead the listener to “dream about...
...protesters accused Harvard of failing to live up to its promises following the conclusion of PSLM’s occupation of Mass. Hall two years ago. At the march’s various stopping points, workers approached the megaphone to plead their cases...
...other words, the post-Taliban order engineered by the U.S. is in danger of unraveling. And Karzai himself is all too aware that Washington's attention has shifted elsewhere. He came to the White House to plead for Afghanistan not to be forgotten, two weeks after it was reported that the Bush administration had - apparently as a result of an oversight - neglected to ask Congress to allocate any money for Afghan aid in its current budget...
...points to Titian's last picture, the Pietà of 1576: in a shadowy niche Mary struggles to support her son's dead body. Painted during the plague that destroyed a third of Venice's population of around 175,000, the work was an attempt to "influence God, to plead with him." The aged Titian succumbed, leaving the picture unfinished. Titian's reputation was bolstered by good public relations. Writer Pietro Aretino, whose volumes of flattering and waspish letters ensured a wary respect from the highest in the land, liked to boost his friend's work, describing every new portrait...
Additionally, groups seeking funding will now plead their case directly to a council subcommittee, Barro said...