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• Pushed for
• Answered "not guilty"
• Advocated avidly
• Said ''not guilty''
• Exhorted earnestly
• Asked in earnest
• Argued, as a case
• Said 'Not guilty!,' e.g.
• Petitioned
• Made a case for
• Begged earnestly
• Exhorted or prodded
• Dug with 'er with encouragement
• Around the East this drug in recommended
• Made use of the Press?