Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a one-man lobby against billboards (TIME, Oct. 31). Although the Senate approved a measure in November to pay billboard owners to remove their own signs, Snarr's crusade had hardly begun. Idealistic, insistent, resplendent in purple suits and iguana cowboy boots, Snarr seized every chance to plead his cause. This winter, he astonished politicians by convincing John A. Volpe...
...mayors, and the senior national and state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...
...poor people and antiwar demonstrators. But last week the capital came under siege from legions whose troops represented the Establishment itself. Nearly 1,000 New York lawyers, some of them from the same firm in which the President and Attorney General John Mitchell had once been partners, appeared to plead the case for peace in Southeast Asia...
...meeting decided that the group as a whole will plead not guilty and that its defense will be based on a challenge of the applicability of the statute in question. An argument emphasizing the political nature of the demonstration will be used to support the challenge...
Attorney Michael Feldman of the Massachusetts Law Reform Committee, who represented the group in court,suggested yesterday morning that all of the defendants plead not guilty and ask for the May 29 continuance so that anyone who wishes to change his plea...