Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doubtless the anti-bigot bigots will tar me for this. But I will plead only what the papacy has always claimed for itself: that "the Pope has two swords." The religious sword we fear not at all. It is that political sword that shakes...
...hardscrabble hill-country life. Powers, he said, went to work for the CIA only because of "mass unemployment" in the U.S. Against Rudenko's suggested sentence of 15 years, Grinev asked for the minimum sentence, seven years. At the end Powers himself got a brief chance to plead, and said that he had never felt "any enmity whatsoever toward the Russian people." His voice was clear and strong. He did not join in his counsel's attack on the U.S., but neither did he disavow it. Apparently not aware that in Russia his defense attorney was as much...
...right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every qualified citizen, regardless of race, creed or color, is able to exercise his franchise." When his enemies circulated a photograph of him shaking hands with a Negro, he cheerfully said: "I plead guilty to shaking hands with Negroes...
...working in lofts, studios and stables, lovingly turn out instruments finer than anything Europe has to offer. They are split into two mildly hostile factions: those who stick to wooden frames and those who experiment with metal. William Dowd and Frank Hubbard, both of Boston, who are wood men, plead that metal introduces a historically inaccurate effect. Nevertheless, both are admirers of Manhattan's Frank Rutkowski, 27, who uses aluminum for his frames on the grounds that metal contracts and expands less (a wooden-frame harpsichord must be tuned virtually every time it is played and whenever...
...week's end, Katanga's pro-Belgian Premier Tshombe shipped a three-man delegation off to the U.S. to plead his independence cause and sent along Belgian Paratroop Colonel Guy Weber as "guide." Belgium's Premier Eyskens proclaimed: "The U.N. must not intervene in the internal affairs of Katanga." But Belgian officials conceded privately that it was only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank...