Word: pleadingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Platt changed his request to an order. Panicky, the MATS men took an easy out, bumped seven emergency-furlough passengers-one lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead son, a dying sister, a mother's funeral, etc.-the colonel turned his back, gathered up his family, marched to the loading ramp...
Mahdawi (to first accused): How do you plead...
Kalimpong heard that the Dalai Lama is safe, though his whereabouts remained a mystery. Dispatches from Gangtok said some Tibetans are en route to New Delhi to plead with Prime Minister Nehru for active intervention. High Chinese Nationalist officials said both sides had ordered up reinforcements in this gravest outbreak of hostilities since Red Chna took over Tibet eight years...
...other U.S. makers. They contend that U.S. equipment is better and breaks down less, that foreign builders in wartime could not supply parts and services to bomb-damaged U.S. power plants. They admit that they cannot compete with low-wage (about one-third the U.S. average) foreign producers, but plead that the U.S. should support the domestic industry to keep its huge machines and highly skilled men ready for an emergency...
...painterly statement than as a social comment. Its small size preserves at once its impact and its nuance. Advocacy can be carried off to advantage in the arts, but it has a way of corrupting all but the strongest. Some of Levine's much heralded larger canvases plead excessively where their business is to resolve. In this respect, a splendid containment and innate dignity comprise one major superiority of Bloom over his contemporary...