Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Council for Civic Responsibility yesterday asked citizens to "help put the spotlight on America's extremist fringe." Five Harvard Faculty members joined in signing the plea, published as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times...
...Plea for Understanding. "The Court is making decisions boom, boom, boom. Many of them are too absolute to fit a country of 190 million diverse people," frets a Yale professor. "Of all three branches of Government," says Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, "today's Supreme Court is the least faithful to the constitutional tradition of limited Government and to the principle of legitimacy in the exercise of power...
...most fervent plea for a "moral quest" came from Princeton's Robert F. Cohen. He told bright Tiger cubs that if they expected "only to accumulate knowledge, I would advise you to begin negotiations with another institution where you can attach yourself to a pipeline of inanimate learning and become full, like a storage tank, sealed by a diploma and otherwise useless...
...defendant knows this. As a result, his first and last words in court are almost always a confession of guilt and a plea for mercy. After he has been formally charged, a defendant may hire a lawyer, and many do, though the courts generally look down on defense counsel. Nor is a defendant's morale helped by the fact that his head is shaved like a convict's as soon as he is jailed for investigation...
...handed down in a case discreetly titled Anonymous v. Anonymous, but one-time Concert Singer Sarah Lake, 28, dispensed with diplomacy and named as the father of her soon-to-be-born child Omar Abdel Hamid Adeel, Sudanese Ambassador to the U.N. In denying Sarah Lake's plea, Judge Louis A. Pagnucco noted dryly that immunity from local jurisdiction is necessary "to avoid impediments to effective diplomatic intercourse...