Word: beget
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Palestinian guerrillas armed with automatic weapons offered a grim demonstration of that philosophy last month when they ambushed an Israeli patrol in the Gaza Strip and killed two soldiers. But stepped-up Palestinian violence will only beget more violence from Israel. Warned Brigadier General Zvi Poleg, who commands Israeli forces in Gaza: "The rules of the game change when lethal weapons are used against soldiers...
Historical Harvard-Wellesley ties sometimes beget new ones. "My parents met 25 years ago because my mother went to Wellesley and my father went to Harvard. I was curious so I thought I'd give it a shot," Vinton says. Did he succeed? "I went to a party and met a girl," he says...
...QUESTION of accidental kindness versus incidental cruelty. The heat-grate business. The Leverett House controversy. Senior Tutor Thomas A. Dingman '67 summed it up best: "It was an agonizing decision." Forgetting, of course, that agony is dual-edged. That agonized decisions beget agonized results. That agony is relative, contagious, common. That agony, like charity, begins in the home...
...weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...
Condescension informs much of the literature about Los Angeles, or something darker (The Day of the Locust). It seems to beget in the outsider the tendency to be snide, to say, for example, that if Houston is the buckle on the Sunbelt, L.A. is the melanoma. "Double Dubuque," H.L. Mencken called it. Westbrook Pegler proposed that the city be declared incompetent and placed in the charge of a guardian...