Word: beg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father did the pacing up and down" -- roughly the same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from her own life. She became a journalist, a remote enough calling that...
...those who put Thomas on the high court. They jammed the phone lines at the Democratic Party. They staged demonstrations aimed at both Democrats and Republicans, from Washington to San Francisco. They joined or donated money to women's groups and generally vented their outrage. "We will no longer beg for our rights from men in power. We will replace them and take power ourselves," Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, told the Washington Post. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "The Senate did more in one week to underscore...
Possibly Kryuchkov and Yazov hoped to negotiate with Gorbachev an end to the coup that would preserve some of their power. Or maybe they simply intended to beg for forgiveness and leniency. Rutskoi and his friends, however, feared they might want to kill the Soviet President. The thought that some of the plotters might try to execute him in a last attempt to save the coup occurred to Gorbachev as well. One of his first calls on Wednesday was to the chief of his personal guard at the Kremlin, working out arrangements to guarantee his safety on a return...
Both the President and Congress are taking up residence in false premises. Bush should not expect the totalitarians who run China to change their behavior at home and abroad simply to keep U.S. tariff rates low. Says Zhu Qizhen, the Chinese ambassador in Washington: "We are not going to beg the U.S. to extend MFN." Congress would be equally naive to think cutting off MFN will force China to reverse its economic and security policies. Such a public loss of face would be intolerable to Beijing...
While economic sanctions were not meant to include food and medicine, they have effectively done so, according to health professionals in Iraq. In hospitals where children lie dying of malnutrition, mothers hovering over cribs hold out a hand when they see a foreign visitor and beg, "Haleeb, haleeb," (Milk, milk). Because the cash-starved government can no longer afford to subsidize the cost of imported baby formula and other staples, prices have skyrocketed. A can of Similac cost half a dinar ($1.50) before the war; now it costs 20 dinars...