Word: beget
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trouble is that Venezuelan men often place machismo, the Latin American he-man obsession, above matrimony. Man's role, they believe, is to beget children, not support them. And their women are none too insistent; many actually believe that marriage "ruins a man." As a result, some 176,000 children were abandoned last year alone, left to become wards of the state or delinquents of the streets. The government's Venezuelan Children's Council spent $10 million last year to care for 96.000 homeless minors, 90% of them illegitimate. With too many mouths to feed, mothers...
...During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy used to argue that way.) One way to stir faster expansion is to encourage increased corporate spending by means of a tax cut. But pessimists hold that if the President waits until next January to apply his cuts, they may come too late to beget a boom, and be useful only to soften the effects of a recession...
...command the roundup. He conceived another farfetched idea, on a par with the Madagascar scheme. Summoning Jewish Leader Joel Brand, Eichmann said: "I'm prepared to sell you 1,000,000 Jews: blood for money, money for blood. Whom do you want to save? Men who can beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell...
Sometimes a little too cute?Walter is the children's "alternate sponsor"?Jean Kerr is also overly fond of using the language of television commercials. But she is wary of puns and uses them with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant...
...means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child also . . . Sexual intercourse within marriage has in itself a goodness given by God, even when there is neither the possibility nor the immediate intention to beget children...