Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when voters' distrust of Washington, runs deep, Carter considers his status a campaign advantage. "I have been accused of being an outsider," he says. "I plead guilty. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are also outsiders. We are not going to get changes by simply shifting around the same groups of insiders, the same tired old rhetoric, the same unkept promises and the same divisive appeals to one party, one faction, one section of the country, one race or religion or one interest group. The insiders have had their chances and they have not delivered. Their time...
Like many other Americans, Bucher has been wondering whether Patty Hearst could convincingly plead that she was psychologically coerced into bank robbery. Bucher does not presume to know what her state of mind was, he told TIME Correspondent David Lee, but he argues that "no one is immune. A person can be made to do damned near anything under threat if he is determined to remain alive...
...Place. His reorganization makes clear who is in charge of intelligence: the President, who will not be able to plead ignorance of a covert operation. Overall policy, said Ford, will rest in "only one place": the National Security Council, whose members are the President, the Vice President...
...recent films except All Screwed Up have been made with Giancarlo Giannini. His presence galvanizes her movies. His racked, searching eyes haunt them. "Those eyes are extraordinary," Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...
People call Brinkley now and then to plead for mercy on a botched exam. Perhaps half the exams he gets are "almost illegible," and this year, for the first time, he thinks he will have to call a student in to read his exam out loud. He grades finals less harshly than hourlies, because they're so important. He complains of how big a proportion of the grading at Harvard is done by grad students...