Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students plead, gesticulate: "Relieve us, or we suffocate...
There is a good case for intervention: most of those under arrest had no idea of what they should plead, where to find legal counsel, or what the chances were of escaping sentence. Like sheep they followed the example of those lucky enough to have a lawyer. This worked last Friday, but it will take more than follow-the-leader tactics to wage a court trial...
...serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...
...M.I.T. dean was charged with disturbing the peace during Monday night's Radcliffe riot when he appeared in East Cambridge District Court yesterday to plead leniency for 17 Tech students facing the same charge...
Secondly, on grounds of artistry and originality I'll have to plead de gustibus--I thought "Birth of a Nation" was a lousy movie; crude, childish, violent, and farcical in its most "dramatic" moments. Sure it has Griffith's panning technique and a couple of great battlefield scenes, but why not cut these out and show them as slides? Or go see "The Red Badge of Courage," which is about fifty times as good. Filling in the lacunae of a few cinema snobs does not justify the risk of vilifying a race, or pandering to prejudices that are already...