Word: beg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their parents so they would not follow them as they went in search of food. One mother with a baby and two older children, tired from the long search for food, sat down to rest under the tree. She sent the two older children to the village ahead to beg a little food. When they returned the mother had died of starvation and the baby was still trying to nurse at her breast. These are just a few authentic reports which come to us. Children are being sold, I mean larger ones, both boys and girls, for less than...
...consisting of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952 had just been subscribed for a total of $4,100,000,000-a squeak-through compared to the 50% (and greater) over-subscriptions of recent years. But to save even this much face the Treasury had to beg banks to increase their purchases, for the unsolicited subscriptions fell considerably short of the necessary total (about $1,000,000,000 short, according to many bankers' beliefs...
This is, of course, no time to start a controversy-it would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...
...give up a little of their comfort so that some one else might win security for them? The President speaks of more & more sacrifices. Sacrifices-hell! Is it a sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt. Sacrifices? Look to the Chinese people...
...TIME [Aug. 10] ... you state that Winston Churchill's daughter was spanked by Bill ("Feets") Adams, an American soldier who wears size 14EE shoes, the largest shoes issued by the United States Army. I beg to differ. . . . My brother, Pvt. Archie Rabhan, one of your subscribers, who is stationed in New York City, was issued size 16EE shoes...