Word: pleaded
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Sketchiest moment at Harvard: My lawyer has told me to plead the Fifth...
...speeding ticket for breezing through the town of Sidney in upstate New York. The justice, who will pay the citation issued to him by the Oneonta Police Department, had little explanation for reporters when reached about the matter at his summer home in Vermont. “I plead guilty,” he said, and refused to say how fast he was going. Speedy Trial Act indeed...
...last licensing commission meeting only Tommy’s owner, Gurcharan S. Gill, was there to plead his case. We call for all students, from the Quad to the River, from seniors to first-years, to flood the next licensing meeting and agitate for later hours. It would be unconscionable for Harvard students to sit by in silence while such an integral late-night watering hole is defiled by cranky old-timers who forget to put in their earplugs when they...
...eyes have a wariness, a veil of fear. It's as if the person is standing at the edge of a fogbank, knowing that in time it will engulf him and there is no chance of outrunning it. I used to see my father's eyes simultaneously plead and hold firm. It would happen when a sentence broke off because he couldn't remember how to finish it. Or when he would say, "I have this condition--I keep forgetting things." He was on a high wire, balancing on courage, with the dark waters of fear below...
...same conclusion: the Pakistanis were no longer able to moderate Taliban behavior. To worldwide condemnation, the Taliban had announced its intention to blow up the 1,700-year-old stone statues of the Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley. Musharraf dispatched his right-hand man, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, to plead with Mullah Omar for the Buddhas to be saved. The Taliban's Foreign Minister and its ambassador to Pakistan, says a Pakistani official close to the talks, were in favor of saving the Buddhas. But Mullah Omar, says a member of the Pakistani delegation, listened to what Haider...