Word: pleaded
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...patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks. Getting out legally doesn't seem much easier. The detainees--660 suspects from 44 countries, scooped up in the war on terrorism--cannot challenge their arrests or plead their cases or even talk to a lawyer, because the U.S. government denies that they have those rights. They are not U.S. citizens, and the base, while under total U.S. control, is not on American soil; since 1903, it has been leased from Cuba for 2,000 gold coins...
Even so, the American Girl stores are teeming with strangely serene mothers and grandmothers who don't seem to mind being dragged around by their bouncing, panting, ranting offspring, who beg and plead for a $70 miniature tepee or $38 Victorian commode. The genius behind American Girl's high-end products is that moms feel good about dropping a lot of cash on low-tech, wholesome Americana. Most of the dolls depict 9year-old fictional heroines at various points in American history, including Kaya, a Nez Perce tribe member in 1764, and Josefina, a Latina on hand for the opening...
Davey said he enjoys having a chance to plead his case to the public...
...tormented Pappaw that I never ate green beans. Every meal—which is about how often my beloved grandmother, his beloved wife, Marie, made them—he would plead with me to try them again. They would put hair on my chest, he told me, a harrowing thought for a kid still waiting on hair in other places. He may have been right, after all—my breasts remain bald, 21 years...
...being an al-Qaeda member, even saying that he was planning an attack. "I was part of a different operation, with different al-Qaeda member and target," he wrote last January. Prosecutors can also place him at meetings with a number of al-Qaeda leaders. Moussaoui might even plead guilty to such a case and would be locked up for life...