Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former State Department Official Alger Hiss, 50, released last November after serving 44 months for perjury in denying that he had passed secret Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was handed a summons by a Manhattan cop. The charge, followed by a plea of guilty: playing catch in a restricted area of Washington Square Park with son Tony, 13, and another lad. Penalty: a $3 fine...
...heart when a third call came at 10:43, delaying the execution. A new petition had been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready at 10 o'clock." At 11:12 the phone rang once more; the court had rejected the last plea. At 11:31 Barbara entered the chamber; at 11:34 the cyanide pellets were dropped in the acid. Barbara held her breath, tilted her head back as if praying; at 11:37½ she breathed and died, aged...
...Slow. With Mayer safely elected, the council heard a plea by The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Johan Beyen for a dramatic Monnet-style increase in the Community's powers. Backed by the Benelux nations, the Dutchman proposed 1) a common market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...
...followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...
...front pages; even President Lowell attended in person. On March 2, 28 were acquitted and the remaining 11 were convicted of disturbing the peace. Four received ten-day jail sentences. The others paid various fines, which were termed "court expenses" when they all submitted a nolo contendere plea...