Word: suppliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goodbye, good luck and please remember our 15 wives," proclaimed the placard. Printed in Russian and held aloft at the London airport by five suppliant Britons, it left the 20 departing members of the Soviet good will mission to Britain as puzzled as the blizzard of questions they had faced at a press conference two days before. "The great interest that is being shown by the British press rather surprises us," said Vasily V. Kuznetsov, the mission's leader...
Standing grim and invincible, the Wigglesworth gate has long been the nemesis of late returning Yardlings. Deaf to their most suppliant pleas, the truculent barrier has continually forced weary revelers to make a long trek through the barren Cambridge wastes to other, more understanding entries to the Yard. Numerous petitions from the Humane Society of Footsore Freshmen, interviews with expensive psychiatrists, and the sight of tiny Yardling bodies freezing in the snow before the merciless gate have all failed to unlock the snaggle-toothed jaws of Wigglesworth...
...believe pride is the basis of his character. I think he felt the dishonor of France as few men can feel anything. . . . To come to the British as a suppliant . . . was intolerable. But he could look to no one else...
Like many a U.S. tobacconist, Ben Marx day after day steeled himself against the doelike eyes of suppliant smokers, doled out cigarets with flinty furtiveness. As furtively, his customers searched his Armonk, N.Y. drugstore for cigaret caches. He got a safe. They learned the combination. Finally, last week, he could stand it no longer...
...Carlton, he always stops to make a few jokes with the girl at the cigar counter. Then he takes on the long round of visitors and telephone calls. (It is not unusual for three Administration czars, the White House, a horse owner and a suppliant hostess to phone him, all inside 20 minutes.) The sound of a buzzer, announcing a new caller, is stimulating to Bernie Baruch. He adjusts his hearing device, turns the battery in his vest pocket to full volume, and goes to work. He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel...