Word: pled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pled the Fifth...
...person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line up and realized she'd never feel it again...
...culprit is defined as one "guilty of a crime or fault." Senator Kennedy pled guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing personal injury without making himself known. As I have just explained, I do not consider him guilty of this charge, because he did not cause the injury, he did not drive the car off the bridge. Judge Boyle concludes that there is probable cause to believe Mr. Kennedy operated his vehicle negligently, thus contributing to the death of Miss Kopechne. Again--not guilty: He was not operating the vehicle at the time...
...President was not being deprived of any information or due process. His lawyer James St. Clair had been permitted to sit through all the committee hearings on the evidence, receive all the documents given committee members, and cross-examine witnesses. "That was due process," she said. "Due process tri pled, due process quadrupled." The Nixon loyalists, she charged, were using "phantom arguments, bottomless arguments...
Even before last week's surprises (see following stories), the West seemed to have become a kind of political basket case. In Britain, Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson's minority government clings tenuously to power 2½ months after a bitter, standoff election that top pled Edward Heath's Tories but seemed to show mainly that the voters have little confidence in either majority party. In Italy, no one seems to care very much whether Premier Mariano Rumor's two-month-old center-left regime, which is the 36th government the country has had since...