Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ossorio, who was chairman of the parent Drysdale firm, steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying last week that he was entering a guilty plea only to avoid "prolonged and expensive" litigation. Said he: "I voluntarily plead guilty even though I do not believe I am guilty." Co-Defendant Heuwetter, the owner of Drysdale Government Securities, said that the charge against him was "substantially" true. Said he: "I had hoped that I could make up the losses...
This movie tells how 3200 Americans defied the mood that swept the United States after World War 1. Both the American and European governments ignored the Spanish Republic's plea for aid even though the newly born democracy was being challenged by the fascist front. Francisco Franco, backed with military support from Hitler and Mussolini, struggled to defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted...
Rosovsky's 1969 report ended with a plea to the power structure: "We know that the adoption of our recommendations would cost Harvard a great deal of money. However, that is true of nearly all projects and programs. The real issue is one of intellectual and social priorities...
...Syria to seek greater sway over Lebanon. Said Eagleburger: "Letting Syria gobble up Lebanon now may only be guaranteeing that in the near-term future an even greater crisis will occur, forcing Israel, and perhaps also the United States, to react in even more dangerous circumstances." Eagleburger's plea helped persuade the resolution's sponsors to soften the language. Criticism of the Administration's policies will probably be modified or dropped altogether, while a passage acknowledging the value of keeping the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast will be added. But a Marine withdrawal will still...
...waves of distortion built around it, Mould rasps out angry, intelligent lyrics which forcefully attack the violent and destructive rhetoric of punk rockers. With lines like "People don't do things like that in the real world at all," this song ultimately comes across as a powerful, heartfelt plea for sanity...