Word: beg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independence celebrations, last week let out an anguished cry of betrayal: "What evil genius has gained the ear of the Prime Minister of Ghana? His friends in Britain are shocked to find Ghana adopting some of the worst practices of colonial rule. This is not Kwame Nkrumah. I beg him to free himself of his advisers...
...both a physician and a Christian I beg to differ with the statements of Psychotherapist Jesse Harvey. The basis of Freudian psychotherapy is helping one see his faults, frustrations, inadequacies and failures in the light of his very nature. Christianity also points men to their shortcomings, faults, mistakes and inadequacies, makes known the Creator's displeasure with man's performance, but then wonderfully solves the dilemma by affording forgiveness for the past, strength for the present, and hope for the future...
...after the German breakthrough he and five buddies wandered around Brittany like truant schoolboys, cadging six meals a day from the peasants, who treated them as heroes. Only one farmer told them off: "Get out! If you had fought, you'd be fed now instead of having to beg...
...girl struggled alone. A dozen times, hobbling on her unbroken leg, she tried to pull herself up and over the wire. The more she struggled the more blood she lost. The ground around her turned red. She never stopped screaming, though her screams grew weaker, and she continued to beg for help. At last a file of Hungarian soldiers came out of the woods. The lead man carried a mine detector. The soldiers fired a few shots to scare away the Austrians. Then, applying a tourniquet to the girl's leg, they put her on a stretcher and carried...
...lago of this interlude is a cadet officer named Jocko De Paris (Ben Gazzara), a rising young sadist who has already learned that it is not enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning...