Word: beg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winthrop seniors Jeff Krauss and Dave Capiola beg to differ. "My blocking group [which makes up the majority of Winthrop's soccer team] has been looking forward to winning the IM championship for three years," Krauss said...
...first class I would take in the English Department, I listened to the professor pose a question to her students. It was one of those questions that seemed to beg for the flexing we've all become so accustomed to watching. I expected that, in response, a student would pose as the model of Harvardness and craft a tangentially relevant reply around a series of allusions and suggestions geared at strutting his or her intellectual feathers. In this class however, the professor was met by the unimaginable--silence first, and then the apprehensive raising of a hand...
Scattered throughout the list of questions that beg for help on course homework are a string of laments and a war of words among students and teaching fellows (TFs) which has more flame than a Bunsen burner...
Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban, may have firm notions about Islam [WORLD, Oct. 14], but I beg to disagree that calling for the imprisonment of women in their homes enforces Islamic law. Islam gives equal status to women and men. I invite Taliban clerics or any Islamic scholars to prove that Islamic law prohibits women from going outside the house to get an education or take jobs for their survival or for extra income. Allah gave equal rights to women 14 centuries ago, but Muslim men took them away...
...reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water boy, tax collector for the welfare state, the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland, the Old Man. And, finally, how he believes he will wrench the presidency away from an opponent...