Word: pleadingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...doubted whether it was wise to try to keep 7,000,000 former Nazi Party members (altogether some 25 million people, counting dependents) "outside the community, or outcasts from it." He was prepared to plead for forgiveness: "We would indeed leave arid the fields in which the Germans must plant the seeds of right thinking if those fields were parched by the withering materialism of revenge...
During his difficult talks on cold war strategy, Acheson was painfully reminded of one recent cold war victim. From Vienna, Mrs. Robert Vogeler had flown to see the Secretary and plead for U.S. action to win freedom for her husband, whom the Hungarians had jailed as a spy (TIME, Feb. 27). Acheson spent an hour with Mrs. Vogeler, assured her that the U.S. was doing everything in its power to obtain her husband's release. Said Mrs. Vogeler: "The Secretary was most charming and I am greatly encouraged...
...life as a conventional diplomat-"those pinstriped suits from Scholte; those blue and white shirts, from Beale and Inman, with their starched collars . . . big official dinner parties, with white ties and decorations . . ." Rushing to diplomacy's opposite extreme, Maclean became "the first member of the service" ever to plead to be transferred to "such a notoriously unpleasant post" as the British embassy in Moscow...
Three main defeats in the present system of treatment were mentioned by Gordon and Harris. Because they have no money and can't defend themselves, they say, the defective delinquents can't adequately plead their cases before the courts...
...Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...