Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people plead that Congress spare us any further agony by continuing with the impeachment machinery...
Even if the PSC grants a permit to AP&L after the proper safeguards are installed, no one can guarantee that the utility will not get its way in the end. That wonderful figment of everyone's imagination--the energy crisis--will provide AP&L the perfect opportunity to plead for dispensation from the 1970 Clean Air standards...
...Radcliffe squad, in contrast, is suffering from a lack of incentive this year, O'Conner said. "We should have 35 girls trying out so they have to work to earn their position," she said. "As it is we have about 20 players, and I have to plead with them to come to practice. It's hard to produce a winning team that...
...convict Agnew on the basis of the collected evidence, said Richardson, would have taken years, "with potentially disastrous consequences to the vital interests of the United States." Considering this, he argued, it had been wiser to accept a compromise that allowed Agnew to plead no contest to a single charge. Then Richardson frankly admitted that no bargain would have been reached if he had not agreed to enter a plea of leniency for Agnew. But he insisted that leniency was justified-that the Vice President's resignation and acceptance of a conviction for a felony were punishment enough. Richardson...
...that he was the subject of a Justice Department investigation. Although Reston did not name Agnew as his source, his piece was obviously based on an interview. "He has been destroyed politically and knows it," Reston wrote. "His view is that he was invited [by the Justice Department] to plead guilty to some charges, but this, in his view, was a cop-out." The story also reported Agnew's determination to stay in office even if indicted-a decision Agnew subsequently announced in his fighting speech in Los Angeles...