Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slapped a curfew on Brazzaville, went on the air to plead for calm, even spoke harshly to his own Balali followers. Eventually, to the embarrassment of the new republic, French troops had to be called in to restore order. An uneasy peace returned, with at least 500 people under arrest. Among them: Jacques Opangault, charged with "incitement to sedition, rebellion and pillage...
...time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer may a murderer plead as a mitigating circumstance the defense honored in Lebanon for centuries: a blood feud...
...Manhattan last week 1) called for the organization of an independent production unit solely concerned with plays for the road, 2) suggested an industry reserve fund to be built from a 10? bite on every ticket sold on the road, 3) sent Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner to plead with actors' agents that they persuade their clients to hit the road...
...United States of America versus Bernard Goldfine," droned the clerk in a Washington Federal Court. "You are charged with contempt of Congress. How do you wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions...
...adults who plead "Let's not get into a war" are unwittingly saying "war in their time...