Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ingratiating social-climber Richard Rich (Robert de Neufville) has an altogether different approach to politics. Rich is not ashamed to beg for a post, and he serves as a direct contrast to More, who is living the epitome of the moral life. De Neufville plays the part of the brown-noser so naturally, in fact, that one shudders to think how he would act in section...
...regular. What brought their world crashing down was an out-of-control lust for the intense feelings of power and well- being that flow from a hit of crack. "Crack has taken away these women's pride," says Thomas. "By the time they find their way here, they'll beg, steal and trade their bodies to the dope man for more." The mothers uneasily deny that their babies were affected by crack, but Thomas says all the children have shown signs of their mothers' drug...
...Brinker realized her next budget would have to be a quarter of a million dollars. "I almost had a heart attack." The 1988 budget was a million dollars -- a figure that demanded constant fund raising. Says Brinker in her oddly tough half-whisper, "You have to go out and beg...
...through its hundreds of barren wooden stalls. Only weeds, leaves and lily pods are for sale, at 50 cents a miserable bunch. Even the richest cannot find food here. A civil servant like Michael Apollo eats only one bowl of boiled weeds a day and sends his family to beg at emergency feeding centers. Everywhere people thrust themselves forward, baring their bony chests and screaming, "Look how hungry...
...would beg for food at restaurants and grocery stores," Kahrl says. "We told them what we were doing and said `Can you give us food?' It was something none of us had ever done before. They would give us food that was stale-dated, and one place in Utah gave us 70 pounds of vegetables and fruit...