Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argued that "the pain of disgrace is one of the most severe any man can go through." But he thought that "equitable sentencing" ought to be a post-Watergate goal of the judicial system. "Take Dick Kleindienst," he said, referring to the former Attorney General. "He made a successful plea bargain, received a tap on the back. Yet he lied to a Senate committee when he was chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. Dwight Chapin [a former Nixon aide], on the other hand, was scared, unfamiliar with the law, but he faces ten to 30 months...
...have that much education to sit down and understand Genesis, then why did God ever let Luther put it in the people's language? At what point do I throw the whole mad mess out of the door? And at what point will my children throw it away?" The plea of that Cedar Rapids father is at the heart of the biblical controversy today, for he represents millions of Christians and Jews. His concern is a basic, agonizing one for any believer: How do you preserve faith in the Bible in a world that seems increasingly faithless? For Protestants...
...Cover-Up. Then Fitzpatrick switched his story again. He had granted probation, he said, because of a plea-bargaining arrangement made by the previous administration. That did it, Sprague says. "I knew he was lying. My choice was either to be honest and tell the truth or keep my mouth shut." It was really no contest. "I decided that instead of participating in my own mini-Watergate, I'd tell the truth, not cover up and not sit tight with my nice job." The next reporter who happened to call got quite a story. Sprague made it clear that...
...Tell me again about the rabbits, George." The plea is from John Steinbeck's naturalistic opus Of Mice and Men. The pleader is Lennie, a ruined hulk who grasps ideas with his hands instead of his brain. Looming about the California farm land, Lennie is barely held in tow by his keeper George. Together, the two migratory workers enjoy a classic symbiosis, the blending of brute strength and animal cunning...
...amicable separation so that she can accommodate a lover. She is a tempestuous creature of instinct who is maddeningly irked by one fact: Leone shows no visible jealousy. She begs her lover Guido (David Dukes) to kill her husband, but he does not really take the plea seriously, and besides he has no stomach for the assignment...