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...farm hand, lumberjack. He ran for local offices (circuit clerk and recorder) and won, later wangled an appointment as postmaster. In 1948 he helped throw Madison County to liberal Sid McMath, who was elected governor. McMath named him to the nonsalary state highway commission, later responded to a Faubus plea ("I'm broke. I need a payin' job") by making him an administrative assistant at $5,000 a year. Orval Faubus moved to Little Rock-and (to him) the big time...
Prime Minister Balewa, who wore the red ribbon of a Commander of the British Empire, pleaded for unity among Nigeria's diversified tribal unities. On hand to approve his plea were the King of Lagos, resplendent in purple robes and a helmet-shaped crown of gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi...
...Toronto, Bullen renewed his plea for scientific explosions. This time he got a part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
Stop the Music! In Gallup, N. Mex., the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association, after several weeks of rainy weather, sent out a plea to Pueblo Indians to cancel plans for some of their rain dances...
...balloon was down to 68,400 ft., and the temperature inside the gondola dropped to 34° F. Simons pulled on a warming suit over his figure-hugging space suit, dumped some ballast (including two spent batteries), and climbed back to safety. An hour before sunrise, he radioed a plea to the ground: "I've got to get some sleep!" Permission was granted; the gondola, conditioned by pressurized oxygen, helium and nitrogen, was awesomely hushed. "It's like no earthly quiet," he reported. "On earth there are always traffic sounds and dogs barking or the wind just whistling...