Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barth's inquiring pastor had asked whether he should resort to prayer to ''pray away" East Germany's Communist government. Replied Barth: "Would you really take the responsibility of approaching the Lord with such a plea? Aren't you afraid that God might grant your request and that some morning you might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
...anti-Communist refugee crowd, which included Hungarian freedom fighters and other anti-Communist Iron Curtain groups, ignored President Eisenhower's plea Thursday for courteous treatment for the Soviet guest...
...plea from son David, 12, was soulful and wide-eyed, so Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ambled outside for a look. There, smart as paint, stood a neighbor's new, factory-built scooter (equipped with a 2½-h.p. engine) that David wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that...
From the Texas Heritage Foundation went the touching plea to the President of the U.S.: Would he, in the name of Christian charity, posthumously pardon that gifted storyteller O. Henry,* convicted in 1898 of embezzling $854.08 from an Austin bank? At the same time the wire went to President Eisenhower from Major General (ret.) Paul Wakefield, the foundation's president, word of his appeal was scattered to newspapers, radio and television stations the country over...