Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time tears flowed at last week's Democratic Convention, nor the first time history was made. Two nights before, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, voice hoarse, shirt soaked with sweat, had moved even delegates opposed to him with an evangelical plea for "the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised." He was the first black to play so pivotal a role at a major-party convention, the leader of a significant bloc of delegates (he got 465½ votes on the roll call for the presidential nomination) whose every move and word stirred anxious speculation...
...frustration felt by blacks raised fresh uncertainties about how Jackson would handle his long-awaited hour of glory at the convention podium on Tuesday night. When he appeared, he somehow managed to lift everyone, turning the political gathering into a revival meeting, complete with a humble confession and a plea for forgiveness. Subdued and speaking softly at first, he brought tears, then stirred delegates to shouts of joyful agreement with the powerful litany of his attack on Reagan's policies...
...challenged large corporations both inside and outside his courtroom. Lambasting business wrongdoing in the U.S. in a 1981 speech, he declared, "Even Hitler, when he was butchering people, articulated a reason to his madness. We don't even do that." Earlier this year, Lord reluctantly approved a plea bargain with the Sperry Corp., which had been accused of overcharging the Defense Department. "It hasn't been called to my attention," he complained to the Justice Department attorneys, "that any individual has been punished...
...evidence of either the infamous sex tapes or a conspiracy, and the jury seemed unswayed by defense contentions that Pancoast may have been hypnotized into believing he killed Morgan. They needed less than five hours to find Pancoast guilty. Next week the same jurors will consider a second Pancoast plea, of not guilty for reasons of insanity. If found insane, Pancoast will be sent to a mental hospital. If not, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment...
What's the difference? cries the good Dr. Seuss in a plea predictably hailed for its sanity by everyone from Art Buchwald ("must reading") to Ralph Nader ("a bundle of wisdom in a small package"). Now is it really necessary to observe that in this world, as opposed to Dr. Seuss's cuddly creation, what divides Yooks and Zooks is democracy and constitutional government, among other conventions? The principal reason Yooks insist on arming themselves is that the Zooks of this planet have the unfortunate tendency to build gulags (for export too) and to stockpile those nasty intercontinental...