Word: pleadingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after they have been broken by war and its devastation, they must have help from somewhere. I am willing to give it to them ... I am willing to spend some billions to help our allies and other democracies of the world to be strong and stay strong ... I plead with you ... to do the thing here today to preserve, protect, defend and perpetuate not only this, the greatest democracy that ever existed in all the tide of time, but the other democracies of this unhappy, this distraught and this dangerous world...
John Roosevelt, youngest (38) of the Roosevelt boys and the only Republican among them, turned up in Washington to plead for election of a Republican Congress. John, now a California-New York businessman (cosmetics, packaging), told the Citizens for Eisenhower that he would "go to hell" for Ike. He reported that he had asked his "favorite Democrat"-his mother-how to get Democratic support for G.O.P. congressional candidates this fall. "Her reply," he said, "was hardly suitable for this meeting...
...Trial for all rebels charged with crimes, with permission to plead for clemency if convicted...
Gerald A. Wolff '55 and Roger C. Cohen '55, co-chairmen of the committee, said last night they will plead for immediate action by the Council in order to forestall a possible administrative move toward imposing stricter attendance regulations...
Pound Foolish. In London, arrested for counterfeiting, Auditor Phillip J. Pratt refused to plead guilty, snorted: "Ridiculous! I look on it as an amusing hobby...