Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab League's representative at the U.N., "the picture that was painted of us-as mentally retarded cowards who couldn't handle modern machinery and would not stand and fight-has been disproved. Now Americans know that's wrong. Instead of our having to plead with them to listen, they ask us to tell them more...
...that Cabinet members be picked exclusively from Congress but keep their congressional seats even while serving the Administration. This is similar to the British Cabinet system under which ministers are also Members of Parliament. If they leave the Cabinet, they remain M.P.s with a prestigious forum in which to plead any case, and may also be looked upon as leading critics of government policy-and so be among the first called to power if that policy fails...
Ford's office is inundated by requests for appearances anywhere and everywhere. Congressmen plead and threaten for audiences. And in the mail the other day came a dispatch from Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who has performed verbal lobotomies on many of the world's great men, the newswoman who warmly coaxed Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a kind of diplomatic Lone Ranger. Oriana Fallaci has found a place in her crowded schedule to request an interview with Jerry Ford...
...denied that presidential pressure was brought to bear on him in his handling of the ITT antitrust case (the White House tapes later revealed that Richard Nixon had told him to "stay the hell out of it ... leave the goddamned thing alone"), Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski permitted him to plead guilty to the lesser charge of refusing to testify. Then Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. gave him a one-month suspended sentence because his offense "reflects a heart too loyal" to the President. Next the bar in his home state of Arizona voted merely to censure him, the mildest...
...come all the way from Philadelphia to plead my innocence in this case. I am an attorney and will defend myself," said the distinguished gentleman to Indianapolis Magistrate Phillip Bayt. Few motorists travel 600 miles to fight a speeding ticket (82 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone), but veteran Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen, 68, assured skeptical court officials that he had no other business in Indianapolis. With Stassen's arresting officer ill and unable to testify, the judge dismissed all charges, and the five-time Republican loser went home with a victory at last...