Word: beg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Privy Seal. A benevolent old pirate with indefatigable asthma, he is contemptuous of anyone who does not admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
...morning of June 11 Admiral Pavesi sent a message to an American air base: "Beg surrender through lack of water." At 11:40 a.m. planes over the island and lookouts aboard cruisers and destroyers offshore (General Dwight Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham were aboard the British cruiser Aurora) spotted two signals : a white cross on the airfield, a white flag on the wrecked harbor installations. By 12:22 p.m. British landing parties had scrambled ashore, mopped up a few troops who had either not been informed of the surrender or could not see their own signals through Pantelleria...
...illustrate my point, I once more must beg to tweak back what remains of my poetic fringe, still my clanging bell bottoms and delve into rhyme with the following ditty entitled...
...squeeze on spinners finally got so bad that Army & Navy orders went beg ging for bids. Last week OPA knuckled under, let the Army pay 6% more for combed yarns. This had a reverse result: spinners then paid no attention to civilian orders, where there were no price concessions. At week's end there was only one way out - if Congress would stand for it: U.S. Government subsidies. Meanwhile lower civilian production will continue...
...Army swore revenge through bombing and more bombing. Vowed Major General Jimmy Doolittle, now pasting the Nazis in North Africa: ". . . until they beg for mercy...