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Word: entreated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...read in Albuquerque's Catholic churches last week. Wrote the archbishop: "Such beauty contests are an appeal to the baser instincts ... As the archbishop of the Catholics in this area, I forbid any Catholic to participate or help in any way in said beauty competition, and I entreat parents to prohibit their daughters from doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beauty & the Archbishop | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue In Manhattan, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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