Word: pleading
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...seven will plead not guilty on all charges. Judith Remcho, one of the group's lawyers, said yesterday...
...search, he has had a few bad scrapes. His first film, Shadows, was begun independently and as an act of love. It was finished on contributions from a radio audience who heard Cassavetes plead for funds on the Jean Shepherd show late one night. His next film, Too Late Blues, was financed-and controlled-by Paramount. Stanley Kramer, executive producer of A Child Is Waiting and a director himself (On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg), fired Cassavetes before he could even complete editing Child...
...they took on 480,000 new cases and wound up with 520,000 still unsettled. The backlog has multiplied nearly 15 times in ten years. Preliminary-hearing sessions are so jammed that 30 seconds is a typical proceeding. After that, the average defendant waits two months before getting to plead guilty or not guilty. Those who demand a trial sometimes wait three years-in jail if they cannot afford bail...
...young and the idealistic, which it had held in the time when labor led the battle for reform. Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become a part of it. Textile-union leaders, for example, accompany mill owners to Congress to plead for higher tariffs...
...Thant to comply. To his surprise, Thant rushed the U.N. troops out, leaving an obvious danger zone unguarded. In the face of Egyptian mobilization, the Israelis launched a devastating pre-emptive attack on Egypt. Drubbed in the Six-Day War, Nasser resigned, knowing that the Arab masses would plead for him to return. He did, a scant 16 hours after his resignation, promising that the Arabs would strike back against Israel with "one hand." Gradually rebuilding his forces, Nasser launched a "war of attrition" against the Israelis, who were dug in along the Suez Canal. Despite his constant advocacy...