Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President out of context. With omitted portions italicized, the full quotation is: "Since our personal political persuasions are irrelevant here, this letter is neither an endorsement nor a criticism of your actions, of National policy, or of the convictions of any political movement." Thus our letter did not "plead . . . [political] noninvolvement" or imply that we had taken no stand on the war in Vietnam; It merely denied that our collective or individual political positions were germane to the repudiation of an III-advised means of protest. A substantial number of us have forcefully stated, in personal letters to the President...
...Administrative Board should allow students facing disciplinary charges to plead their own cases, the Harvard Undergraduate Council urged last night...
...Allowing a student to personally plead his case before the Administrative Board. This would presumably permit a clearer presentation of the facts...
...Chief Minister Mackawee, declaring that Britain "has gone mad and lost all her sense of proportion," flew to Cairo for consultations with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear...
...damnum clause should be banished-or at least kept from jurors' ears. Technically, it merely determines which court has jurisdiction over the amount in controversy. (Most kinds of federal court cases, for example, must involve more than $10,000.) In Pennsylvania and Florida, the plaintiff may now plead only that he demands more or less than the jurisdictional amount of a particular court. New Jersey has eliminated the ad damnum clause. British courts long ago barred lawyers from reading the clause to juries, thus focusing full attention on the trial evidence...