Word: plead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics & Prices. Although it has pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to one of the lesser price-fixing charges handed down in the same investigation, U.S. Steel denied the latest accusations, planned to plead not guilty at this week's arraignment. Bethlehem also issued a denial, countercharged the trustbusters with disinterring "ancient history" and "harassing" the steelmen. Many executives viewed the indictment as the latest phase in what they deem to be a continuing vendetta against steel led by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. But they absolved Lyndon Johnson of any blame, on the grounds that the charges did not originate...
...easy money-could bring on inflation and end the U.S.'s six-year period of relative price stability. With such a prospect in mind, President Johnson in his speech this week to the Auto Workers, and Heller in a talk to the Economic Club of Detroit, will plead for restraint all around on prices and wages...
Among the favorite political pastimes of Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is making frequent speeches that cite percentage figures for the progress of his programs, plead for bipartisan unity, exhort Michiganders to "put an end to stalemate and drift" and "move forward...
Monk was arrested along with Bud Powell when a packet of heroin was found in their possession. Monk had always been "clean," but he refused to let Powell take the rap alone. "Every day I would plead with him," Nellie says. " 'Thelonious, get yourself out of this trouble. You didn't do anything.' But he'd just say, 'Nellie, I have to walk the streets when I get out. I can't talk.'" Monk held his silence and was given 60 days in jail...
...full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...