Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diet repeated Premier Miki's plea to the U.S. State Department to release the names of high Japanese officials implicated in taking Lockheed money. The politicians also agreed to hold two days of hearings this week on the scandal. Nine witnesses will be called, but possibly not all will appear. Kodama is still too sick to move, his doctor advises, and former Lockheed Vice Chairman A.C. Kotchian is not bound by U.S. law to go to Japan to testify...
...thought if he could swing a few faculty votes to his side he might ultimately prevail," the friend says. Pavlovich apparently realized plea bargaining was out of the question. He was "acutely aware that his was a precedent-setting case for loan fraud cases," the friend who spoke to him says, adding that Spiro "thinks he's got the whole world against...
...done is to concentrate his energies on creating various succinct and catchy integrations of riff and lyric. Sounds like Elton John but it's much rawer and more entrancing, particularly in the choruses, in which he chants enigmatically, "Run for the shadows/In these golden years" or wails his plea, "Stay? That's what I meant...
...brings to mind a genre of music and the environment it thrives in. "Edge of the Blues" is explicitly modeled after the sinuous, superstitious rhythm of jazz, blues and gospel. The stanzas wind through snatches of borrowed lyrics and a pair of lines reminiscent of a slave song, whose plea has been transported into a scene of city night life: "Just show me God, quick./Then let me sleep./...and all the soft windows of the neighborhood/are darkening, one by one." There's a snake in the poem--it is embodied by the restless musicians and their instruments...
Until now, brainwashing has never held up as a successful plea in a federal court, though U.S. military tribunals have acquitted prisoners of war who claimed that they had been brainwashing victims. Richard Sprague, the Philadelphia prosecutor who won four first-degree murder convictions in the killing of United Mine Workers' union leader Jock Yablonski, warns: "It would really attack the fundamentals of criminal law, which holds an individual responsible for his actions. If this happens, you are going to be turning the criminal courtroom into a psychiatrist's couch." Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, the majority...