Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That number, however, is slightly higher than the member of people who reserved outfits by the mid-May deadline. "I'm embrassed to sayE> how many people come in here the day of Commencement" to plead for left over growns, Argeros says...
Progressive sisters are now praying and writing the Vatican to plead for a modernized constitution. The prioress at the convent in the Roxbury section of Boston, Sister Therese, clasps her hands and smiles with confidence as she speaks in hushed tones of the traditionalist campaign. "All we know is that what they are asking is impossible. We're living...
...allegedly kidnaped and sexually molested Plauche's son Jody, then eleven. "A lot of people have stated that they would have done exactly the same thing as Plauche, if it had been their son," conceded Prem Burns, chief prosecutor in the Louisiana case. Burns said Plauche has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter...
...fractionated Supreme Court of late. "A criminal trial is fundamentally unfair," wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, "if the state proceeds against an indigent defendant without making certain that he has access to the raw materials integral to the building of an effective defense." Specifically, said the court, defendants who plead not guilty by reason of insanity are entitled to a psychiatrist's help in preparing and presenting their cases...
...drama was played against a background chorus of anguish from farmers. Rural politicians, representatives of agriculture organizations and even individual growers and dairymen wandered through the Capitol to plead for emergency assistance. The 105-member South Dakota legislature voted itself a special $95,000 appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators...