Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: In Fort Worth 16-year-olds have carved his name into their forearms with clasp knives (one did it four times), and an older woman was heard to plead with him: "I've got my husband's Cadillac outside. Come with...
...sure Joe Stalin is a member." Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment three times in refusing to say whether he had been a Communist in 1940 and 1941. He was fired by Brooklyn College under a New York City charter provision that requires automatic dismissal for all city employees who plead the Fifth Amendment. Last week, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Slochower's dismissal invalid...
...therefore, gentlemen, so far from pleading for my own sake, as one might expect, I plead for your sakes, that you may not offend about God's gift by condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state...
...told him frankly that, though he personally saw his country's future linked with the West, it would be very hard for Libya to refuse such aid, unless the West could offer to match it. While Ben Halim stalled off his answer, Tappin rushed off to Washington to plead for more...
...Beta Kappa & a Nobelman. A proud and portly man with a flair for oratory and a willingness to travel 25,000 miles a year to plead Howard's cause, Johnson has seen his budget swell from less than $956,000 to $5,658,500. His enrollment has climbed from 2,155 to 4,800; his faculty has nearly tripled to 442. He built a new library and a power plant, buildings for the School of Engineering and Architecture, the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy. Five women's dormitories have gone up, as well...