Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forum also heard Ernest Riggs, president of Anatolia College at Thessaloniki, Greece, and Sterling Dow '25, professor of Greek and History, join in the plea for swift application of the Truman doctrine...
...plea is made, however, that TIME readers sympathize with rather than sneer at us for this new phenomenon in Philippine life, brought about by Japanese occupation. Before Pearl Harbor, criminality in the Philippines was no worse than in the U.S. and in other countries. After the American surrender at Corregidor, Filipino character . . . had the ruggedness to choose continuance of resistance against the Japs either by guile or by force, in the hills and in the valleys, to make General MacArthur's promised return come sooner, less costly in American lives...
Very few seemed shocked, or even particularly surprised, by the President's plea for aid to Greece and Turkey (see The Presidency). But the national mood was one of resignation and apathy rather than enthusiasm. Muttered a Chicago commuter: "More sand down the rat hole." Said an ex-soldier, now a student at the University of Oklahoma: "Well, I told my wife to dust off my uniform...
...admit that administration in India had broken down to the point where Britain was no longer effective. Gloomily he warned that India was "a volcano of hidden fires," and "even as we are speaking tonight there are serious communal disturbances" (see below). But he argued against any "plea for delay . . . and inaction...
This not uncommon appeal across a drugstore counter spawns one of the world's meanest, lowest rackets. As every druggist knows, the customer who makes this plea is interested in abortion and usually wants a box of pills (often hideously expensive). As every gynecologist knows, pills don't work-and are highly dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food & Drug Administration let it be known that it had launched a determined drive against the thriving abortion-drug trade...