Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could see into the hearts of the editors they should see there the genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation's press. After all, the News belongs to the student body and they should, by rights...
...plead not guilty!" she cried. "I had no knowledge and we all had no knowledge of any attempt on the life of the President...
...mother had absolutely no knowledge of my activities against the Machado regime." said Son Dr. Igacio Mendoza. "I plead not guilty...
...Heard Margaret Sanger plead for birth...
Clarence Darrow, in what he said would be his last big case, took more than four hours to plead for acquittal. He swung his long arms, glared, shouted, coaxed, sentimentalized, used all his courtroom tricks before sinking back into his chair an exhausted old man. His argument was that the defendants had been trapped by Fate in a chain of sorrowful circumstances beyond their control...