Word: plead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should not become hypnotized by an Orwellian view of Soviet Russia as a mere incarnation of horror that must be wiped out-because, such hate will only blind the West in trying to devise sound policy. Most readers will accept this as sensible advice. But Deutscher goes on to plead elaborately that Russia is not really like 1984 at all-and in this plea he shows a pedantic failure to understand satire. Or could it be that Author Deutscher, like the characters in 1984, uses doublethink without any longer being aware...
...parson who had been served with a writ of slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there was no legal cause of action. Then he routed the plaintiff in a straight legal battle. Out of this victory came the first of many sonorous Coke maxims: "[Never] hazard the matter upon a demurrer...
...editors will plead the truth of their assertion if and when the case comes to trial, which will certainly not be this year. Such cases have been known to take three years to come to trial because of court congestion...
...votes. Led by Mendès-France, a bloc of 13 Radical Socialist Deputies boldly voted against the government, though the party has 13 members in Mollet's coalition Cabinet. Mollet, hurt by the attacks on his military policy and tough police methods, had been obliged to plead: "I am sure none of you think that the government, the army and the administration want or plan torture...
...Blues." The sample jingles you quoted just about finished me. We have enough solid corn without the Administration deliberately choking us with more. If this kind of approach is tried on me (I always pay my taxes on time), the IRS can go to hell, and I will plead insanity from incessant and uncontrolled brainwash technique. The thought that they even entertained the idea is disgusting...