Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monday Edelin grew more confident and stoutly resisted Flanagan's efforts to suggest that he wandered from acceptable medical practice in his treatment of the patient. The defendant answered questions forcefully and sometimes angrily; twice he wagged his right forefinger at the prosecutor; and he never had to plead the fifth amendment under the blustering cross-examination...
Politicians have a bad name: a lot of fathers would not want their daughters to marry one, and candidates' wives openly express the wish that their husbands were in some other line of work. But at the very least, politicians are entitled to plead, in the words of the old song: "You made me what I am today, I hope you're satisfied." That plea will probably get them about as much sympathy as the jilted lover gets, but it deserves to be considered. Complacent public discussion usually turns on the poor quality of the candidates...
...Pardoner's Tale. Indeed, it is worse. Chaucer's three thieves at least thought that the gold was benign. Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil). Without a moral compass, Stone's characters cannot even plead ignorance. The irony that the heroin's value is rooted in its destructiveness does not escape them, but they cannot drop it. Its force has irradiated their world. They know of no good that will shelter them...
...Special Prosecutor's still open agenda is the case of Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and chief campaign fund raiser. He has been plea bargaining with the prosecutors, seeking to plead guilty to one or more misdemeanor charges of violating campaign-contribution laws. The prosecutors want him to plead guilty to a felony. If no agreement is reached, an indictment is expected. Also facing probable indictment is Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's millionaire Miami friend. Although it is entering its final phase, the Watergate scandal is far from over...
...Washington for two weeks just to help get the office started. He stayed nearly five months, after deciding that Dean was the key to the case and that it was critical to get his guilty plea and his cooperation. On Oct. 19 Neal went to court to hear Dean plead, then announced his own resignation. His assistants, Richard Ben-Veniste, 31, and Jill Wine Volner, 31, performed admirably in the many and complex preliminary hearings in John Sirica's courtroom. Still, as a prosecution staffer observed, "for the biggest trial of all, you want someone out there with...