Word: pleading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Buchwald would surely plead guilty to the first half of the accusation, but not to the second. He almost never wrote to wound. Being an amiable smartass--a pseudonaif American trickster, like Bugs Bunny with a cigar in his mouth instead of a carrot, wandering through glittering Paris with its haute cuisine and wines he professed not to understand--became Buchwald's signature. In the 10 years when he wrote a column from Paris until the New Frontier attracted him to resettle in Washington, Buchwald made a very funny American Abroad...
...Annapolis, sees the case as "a horrible aberration" that should not change the academies' selection process. "There aren't too many accomplished people," he says, "able to hide such dark sides." That's what's so haunting about this case: if found guilty (attorneys say the pair will plead innocent), it will appear that the same determination that brought success in classrooms and on athletic fields led them to view Jones as just another obstacle to what they wanted, another obstacle to be removed...
...saying if he were given a jail sentence, he would cheat prosecutors of their victory in the end by dying in prison. Prosecutors now suspect that McDougal may be cooperating to help his former wife, says TIME'S Jeff McAllister. Mrs. McDougal refused an early offer from Starr to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in return for her cooperation. Now she faces 17 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Whatever information Jim McDougal may have tucked up his sleeve remains very much a mystery, and there is not much the White House can do until he reveals...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In what they hope will be a massive end-run around politicians, thousands of children's advocates will march on Washington this weekend to plead for a renewed national commitment to meet the varied needs of children. The "Stand for Children" march, organized by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund (CDF), comes at a time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition...
...once ruled. Free-market liberals disdain his vacillating support for economic reform; Communists and nationalists detest him for his role in ending the empire. No matter. Gorbachev is waging a quixotic race for Russia's presidency and this day is heading 700 miles south of the Kremlin to plead his case in Volgograd...