Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeatedly ask Ray if he understood just what he was admitting and that he was waiving forever his right to a trial. Said Ray: "Yes, sir." The judge: "Has anything besides your sentence of 99 years in the penitentiary been promised to you to get you to plead guilty?" Ray: "No, no one has used pressure...
...concerned over any political controls on their work. At last week's Senate hearing, these fears were voiced by Norton Zinder, a molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University. Said he: "We are moving into a precedent-making area -the regulation of an area of scientific research-and I must plead that this be done with extreme care and without haste. The record of past attempts of authoritative bodies, either church or state, to control intellectual thought and work have led to some of the sorriest chapters in human history...
...expressed a strong preference for the River Houses. Unwilling residents from that class put on a display worthy of the greatest of draft dodgers. One then-freshman asked a psychiatrist to certify that she would be unable to study while living at the Quad; others had alumni parents plead their cases to the housing office. All told, about 60 Quad residents have transferred so far this year and many more hope to follow them. Nor is the trend abating: in a housing poll released today more than half of the freshmen polled listed Quad Houses among the two Houses...
...terrorist act is sure to receive the widest possible attention. There is no need to cry in the wilderness when anyone so inclined can plead his case on national television. Says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer: "If someone has a latent wish to commit a criminal act, he can be galvanized by the media. He can act out any grandiose fantasies or make up for a sense of impotence...
Bailey himself appeared before the legislature to plead that the house forget his past crimes and consider instead the wishes of his constituents. Said he: "They voted me to sit in this honorable house, and I think it's no more than right for me to sit here." But the new evidence strengthened the attack on Bailey. Said one critic: "I just don't believe a convicted shoplifter should make the laws of the state." The legislature voted, 82 to 10, to bar Bailey...