Word: beg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
...Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed-out but repentant husband came to beg her to come home. Catherine decided that her new-found lover had better share a hopeless grave with the dead stallion...
...Thing I Beg...
Sirs: As a U.S. Marine, I am not in the habit of begging anyone for anything, but there is one thing I will beg for. I beg my fellow citizens to give the loyal Japanese-Americans their God-given right to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that, I sincerely hope, is guaranteed by our Constitution...
...Simultaneously, professional "insiders" spread the word that Mr. Roosevelt might be unavailable for 1944. Strategic Goal No. 1: to make jittery anti-Roosevelt factions within the Democratic Party sit up & beg for a Fourth Term. Goal No. 2: Republicans, convinced that Roosevelt won't run, might nominate a candidate whom F.D.R., running after all, could easily defeat...