Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Very few people expect today's Germans to beg in perpetuity for forgiveness for the aggressions of a previous generation. But it's rather arbitrary to decide that 40 is the number of years necessary to erase all lingering wartime sentiments. Germans can't expect that the passage of two generations with "good behavior" will convince everyone of the desirability of investing the German people with a European economic and military dominance. There are still plenty of people who aren't likely ever to forgive...
...while still in high school, she didn't have a typical American adolescence, but says she didn't care. From childhood on, she could go "for hours and days just playing by myself or reading," and recalls with pleasure how she would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could say I was somewhat of a nerd," she laughs...
...break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from a former Ivy League classics scholar like Giamatti...
...Some friends of mine became closer friends when I called them up to beg that they owned me. For what? I couldn't remember, but this was important. By 1800 hours, we were ready...
...Crimson staff editorial suggests that Harvard's student groups may have little in common beyond the student center issue. We beg to differ. HUSO probably won't address such broader issues as divestment or campus security. Those issues are for the Undergraduate Council. But there are many problems the student officers can try to solve together, such as racism and sexism within organizations, or management-related issues such as volunteer burnout and the high rate of leadership turnover common to college groups...