Word: plead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important, Bosch proposed legislation to confiscate the property of ex-Trujillo scpporters. Under the new plan, old Trujillo landlords would have been forbidden to plead their cases in court. Although Bosch advisors privately considered the new laws unconstitutional, practical politics offered no alternative: the land holding elite controlled the courts and the courts were stalling land reform. Property owners immediately envisioned a rash of confiscations...
...Federal Trade Commission under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME, Aug. 9) Landis appeared in a Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty on charges of failing to file federal income-tax returns on $360,000, which he earned from 1956 to 1960. It was not, he insisted, that he had intended to be a tax cheater. It was just that he had been too busy to fill out his tax returns. Last week...
...show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must have it and sooner or later may have to plead for it. And it makes retreat and compromise so impossible that in Cuba, for example, men who should be natural allies through mutual hatred of Fidel Castro cannot cooperate because one would then become leader of the other...
...indicted and probably convicted on a felony, with a term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then had the choice of sacrificing the principles which brought me down here: non-cooperation with the whites, except on our own terms; non-violence (I would have had to plead guilty to throwing a brick); complete reliance on SNCC and its resources. And, since our attorney, C.B. King, a Negro, had not been informed of the violence charges by the police, I had to make the decision without advice as to the legal possibilities of the alternatives...
...this love and skill should be lavished on a tiny private altar devoted to the Virgin Mary, for she was revered throughout the Middle Ages as both "the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of All." The act of suckling her infant had symbolic importance, for she could plead with the son she had suckled as no one else on behalf of sinners she thought worthy of heaven...