Word: beg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction took several forms. After ten years of stalling, the Soviet Union finally signed a peace treaty for Austria, agreeing to long-resisted clauses in return for Austrian neutrality. At the same time, with noticeable urgency, the Kremlin arranged a top-level mission to Yugoslavia, a pilgrimage to beg Marshal Tito to take a neutral position...
...wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation. I cannot contravene the law. Scelba...
...Malenkov or, as far as I can remember from the war years, any of your political colleagues . . . Would it appeal to you ... if we met in a friendly fashion, without agendas, for the sole purpose of trying to find a sensible way of living side by side? I beg to be informed about what you and your friends think about it." Molotov replied: "We think such a friendly contact could help." But first Geneva, then the Paris accords, intervened. The proposal petered...
...year after its last outbreak, must be a case of seasonal aggressions in the Hutch. The proposed tower, resting upon a feeble arch, would be as shaky as are these fabricated claims. Winthrop's Gore Hall will remain impervious even if the Leveretts, having tried in vain to beg or steal, return to element and burrow...
...shuttered bazaars few bothered to tune their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...