Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since psychiatrists have been used as expert witnesses by the Courts, there have been bitter struggles between the doctors of the prosecution and the doctors of the defense. These battles have tended to center on the very popular "insanity plea." There is no legal definition of insanity, and since each case is different, the psychiatrists cannot apply any hard and fast rules. The experts can only give their usually conflicting opinions, and the Court must come to final decision...
...report included a plea for an additional $5,000,000 endowment to meet annual deficits and to finance a new class-room building, and a new student building to provide central dining...
Harold J. Laski returned to a Harvard auditorium last night, in one of his few appearances at the University since he left under strained circumstances in 1921, to deliver a strong plea for trade union socialism. He addressed an overflow crowd at Sanders Theater in the last Law School forum of the year...
...could not openly reject the plea. "Your message has been received," he wired back. "Our party is very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...
...handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always got off scot free, though only his plea for Christian forgiveness saved him from the wrath of fellow churchmen...