Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...
Colucci, who was arrested Tuesday in his basement barber shop at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, entered a plea of not guilty; but he submitted to the finding of guilty returned by the court yesterday...
...obscure French philosopher of the nineteenth century and used them as a basis for expounding his theories about the sad drift of the world. This takes up about three-fifths of "Themes and Variations"; the rest is a jumble of essays ranging from "Variations on El Greco" to a plea for population control...
There would be neither harmonizing nor uniting for a long time to come. Scott Lucas' plea was made in the teeth of a gathering hurricane. It was the beginning of the biennial Big Blow...
During Easter week, with valise and violin, Blandino went to Procida. There he dispatched letters to the Pope and to the Italian President, Premier and Minister of Justice, renewing his plea for legal recognition of voluntary substitutions. He slept on a cot in the same room with other prisoners, set up an altar in the reception room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were...