Word: plead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history heightens its ironies. In a letter to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII can scarcely contain his urge to make her the "only mistress" of his life: "Whose pretty duckys I trust shortly to kiss." The very next reading is a letter Anne Boleyn sent from the Tower to plead for her life. Then comes a king who does not plead. Peremptorily charged with treason, Charles I stands on his divine rights: "I do not know how a king can be a delinquent." He rebukes his judges with a concept that is still sound after four centuries: "If power without...
...Smith was there. Senator Teddy Kennedy was there with his wife Joan. And Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was there with a mink hat. In fact, the Kennedys outnumbered the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, who also showed up. They had come to see a young lawyer named Bobby Kennedy plead his first case in any court...
...from their unanimous recommendation that the missile be continued. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay remains deeply concerned that present U.S. nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union may become inadequate if such new weapons as Skybolt are not pursued to add further flexibility. The Air Force undoubtedly will plead Skybolt's cause at congressional committee hearings to be held soon...
...been clubbed by goons carrying baseball bats. The outcome was predictable though the margin was surprisingly close: Hoffa's side won the election by 3,870 votes to 3,274Cohen himself is not yet home free. Last week he and five others appeared in a Philadelphia court to plead not guilty to a three-year-old charge that they conspired to loot the union treasury of about $100,000. Next month, Cohen is up for reelection. Presumably he has the muscle to win again...
...eventually he must be defeated, and fortunately Adrienne Harris as the Mummy who finally exposes him has the power to do it. She very smoothly overcomes the difficulties of playing a parrot-like creature who has lived in a closet for decades. She emerges to plead for another way of dealing with sin: repent and suffer for one's own rather than punishing it in others...