Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waved to his wife Christine and mother Ivy. When his solicitor, Maurice Nadeem, questioned whether Fagan could still pose a threat to the Queen after this week's security improvements, the prisoner bristled. "I told you not to fetch her name up," Fagan said, glaring. "I would rather plead guilty than have her name dragged into this...
Several area lawyers said that they could use several strategies to defend young men charged with failure to comply. Roberts said most lawyers would plead selective enforcement and violation of First Amendment rights. The Justice Department has cleared only 160 names for indictment, but Selective Service officials estimate that 527,000 young men have failed to register...
...same seats and keep careful score as the cars flash by, but they are of a totally different breed. People who sit in the stands wear imitation Penske racing team windbreakers and "Five for Foyt" buttons. Infielders wear "God rides a Harley" T-shirts and buttons which plead, "Show Us Your Tits...
...give a shit what happens," said the President of the United States. " want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it, save the plan." The statesman, the architect of detente and the opening to China, talks in these moments like a don organizing the rackets in Brooklyn: the leader of the free world as a paranoid thug. Watergate was a large and shadowy kingdom. At least some of its landscape came at last to seem a portrait of the darkling mind of Nixon himself. The House...
...harshest criticism of U.S. policy came from Peru and Venezuela, two countries that are involved in tense border disputes of their own. Charging that Washington had disrupted the basis of the O.A.S. and created a North-South breach in the hemisphere, Caracas sent a delegation to Western Europe to plead for an end to the European Community's economic sanctions against Argentina. The sudden surge of nationalism in Caracas raised fears in Guyana, meanwhile, that Venezuela might resort to military action to seize 58,000 sq. mi. of mineral-rich territory that have been the subject of dispute since...