Word: pleading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late, British officials scurried across the Continent to plead their government's case-resembling, in former Tory Party Leader Iain Macleod's withering phrase, "doves sent out from the Ark to tell people that Noah's sorry it's raining." Even so, hardheaded foreign bankers might have waited for Noah to reach dry land if there had been any real sign that the government was coming to grips with Britain's basic economic ills. On the contrary, Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted...
...several years interpreted "handicapped" students supported by the Will Rogers Fund to mean financially handicapped. Other colleges plead with donors or their heirs to liberalize the ground rules, and often win. Adelphi University on Long Island accepted a scholarship reserved for applicants named Smith from nearby Franklin Square, which proved to be short of smart Smiths. Finally the dean of students successfully appealed to the donor to limit his restriction to qualified residents of Franklin Square, and a bright lad named Montgomery won the scholarship...
...prosecution next thought of second-degree murder, but that requires proof of intent to kill an individual. Seeing no other choice, the prosecution finally allowed Weissman to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter on the theory that he would still get a rap of up to 15 years. But the D.A. guessed wrong. Accepting Weissman's plea, State Supreme Court Justice Frederick Backer mulled over a psychiatric report and gave Mike Schaffer's killer 3½ to seven years...
...press after the riot. This section is undoubtedly the more interesting, for it contains a detailed description of the riot, Silver's impressions of James Meredith, and a note to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., special assistant to President Kennedy, suggesting that if necessary the President telephone Meredith to plead with him to remain at the university...
...goal is to do away with the need for a lengthy trial by producing a fast guilty plea-a "cop-out." And, after weeks in a county jail, many a criminal defendant is more than willing to plead guilty, to settle for a judge's quick sentence rather than insist upon his constitutional right to trial by jury. To spur the copout, prosecutors may offer a variety of guilty pleas to lesser charges...