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Word: beg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unquestioned high reputation--no going after easy prey like Henry Hyde or Dan Burton. The time limit should be one year. Bring the charges to the House of Representatives, shame the guy, laugh him to scorn, let the newsboys chew on him, let him crawl and cringe and beg forgiveness and then hand the keys to the prosecutor's office over to the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Were Right, But-- | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...dream come true," Cummings said. "I used to beg my father each year to take me to this tournament. I'm in shock...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: NIGHTMARE ON ICE! | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...polite or appropriate for commissioners to beg, but Michael, please come back", commissioner David Stern said last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breathless: NBA Awaits Jordan's Decision | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...fence-mending exercise. "The last meeting between the two sides was disastrous because Russian officials started shouting that they wouldn't be treated like a developing country," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But if you don't want to be treated that way, you shouldn't beg for money. So this time, Primakov provided an example of how to deal with someone on whom you depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Makes Nice With the IMF | 12/2/1998 | See Source »

...impinge on the environment, both of whom are unable to negotiate their own terms. A few people with toothpicks, often from privileged institutions like Harvard, have been afforded the luxury of fine-tuning these margins of the system, to keep the stray negative elements in line. I would beg them not to take the vast positive mass of that system, which enables this luxury in the first place, for granted...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: In Defense of Business Careers | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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