Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love for him, had stood outside his window to see him, and died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress, but she, too, declined the honor. The reader has Author Lonyay's full assurance that another mistress, Mary Vetsera, was delighted to accept. She was thrilled at the thought of being found dead in bed with the heir to the throne...
...move would seriously weaken the U.S. position, not only in Korea but in all East Asia. In Japan the 7th would relieve the crack nth Airborne Division. The 11th would move back to the U.S. Barely three weeks after Douglas MacArthur's urgent plea for reinforcements (TIME, Dec. 20), the War Department was taking away from him 12,000 of his best troops...
...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
...then a first-rank U.S. literary hero. Leftish intellectuals and young people distressed by the depression saw his massive and radical trilogy, U.S.A., as a powerful plea for America's underprivileged. Written at a time when social novelists were likely to have more anger than talent, U.S.A. was a major literary achievement. Perhaps for the first time, an American novelist chose society as a whole as his central figure and used individual characters as mere illustrations for his thesis that America had been skidding downhill, socially and morally, since World...
...schottisches, gay guardsmen and ruffly romance. When the old general harrumphs his warnings to his niece, the advice seems wasted on a relatively insipid pair (Keyes and Farley Granger). Niven and his lost sweetheart (Teresa Wright) steal the show so completely that in the end it becomes a plea for the past tense, on almost any terms...