Word: beg
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...personal favorites. These essays not only compose an impressive body of knowledge and rhetoric, but also evoke a classical dilemma--the role of the intellectual. While Bell fights, and wins, war in the abstract, his victories seem pyrrhic. By the end of his 17 essays, any reader will beg for a solution to the problems he has raised. Although each essay contains a trace of hope, Bell always falls short of an answer, or even advice, leaving the reader in despair...
...with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes Swanson, led Boston's late William Cardinal O'Connell to beg her to end the affair. "Each time you see him becomes an occasion of sin for him," the Cardinal warned. That did not especially impress either of them. When the two finally fell out, it was over a less spiritual matter-money...
Ready to settle into a comfortable retirement, Holmes admits that he does not need any more money, and that he has had his fill of the limelight. He is not a killer-fighter and has been known to beg an opponent to give up rather than get hurt. This gentleness, which some call a flaw, will eventually be the deciding factor in his leaving the ring...
...mother's advice: If you ever decide to practice medicine in a small town, drive in in a Cadillac if you have to beg, borrow or steal every cent it takes to buy one. Because if you don't, and you buy one at the end of a year, everybody will know you paid for it with money you made from them...
...braille. He wears no sunglasses and shamelessly allows his empty eyes to wander over the shuffling stream of pedestrians. Every few minutes a passerby drops some coins in the old Jew's plastic dish, and he nods, mumbling a thank you. But his crudely lettered sign does not beg for charity; it states simply, "Blind Man's Newsstand." For 30 cents you do more than ease your conscience; you get the late city edition of the New York Post...