Word: plead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the four Second Year Law cases in the elimination round that decides qualification for the third year round of the Ames Competition will be argued at 8 o'clock this evening in Austin North. The Root Club will represent the plaintiff; and the Thayer Club will plead for the defendant in an imaginary case for an injunction...
...your moral scruples do not permit you to do as the law you are supposed to administer bids you, please vacate the chair and come over to join me in this stand. I know and understand the British laws and it so far as they are concerned of plead guilty'. Mr. Gandhi added that according to the eternal law of truth he was right in loving his motherland and that if not sentenced he would continue pursuing his policies in the interest of the freedom of his country and the vindication of the principle that he held true. Mr. Gandhi...
...hear him is no myth: I have been in non-union towns and cities where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist being one and the same man, he almost despairs...
...been said of many another masterpiece, a setting forth of thoughts that everyone has felt but no one has expressed. And if anyone finds himself disgusted with the cheap sophistication and cheaper knowledge of present generation, let him turn to Professor Perry's volume and plead, with it, for a return to the ways of the Humanists, with "their delicacy of touch, their sense of humor, their essential innocence, their childlike faith in Nature...
...Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works and tearfully plead for counsel. Your father will advise going to live alone in the bungalow where once you were poor but happy together. Then father will see to it that your husband loses his job and the vampire presents him with the atmosphere. After a few hard weeks he will acknowledge himself...