Word: begets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a gentle drinking man whose buns beget a 6 ft. 1½in. bunny (TIME...
America is not a land of ease. We have not paused from action to beget Heroic simile and song and frieze; We have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings...
...Sayed had a reputation as an apostle of Allah to maintain. Although his fighting father had killed General ("Chinese") Gordon, King George V had forgiven and knighted the son. Now Sir Sayed determined to break the market, enable his followers to obey the Prophet's injunction: marry and beget sons...
...Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler's Schwarze Korps exhorted able-bodied German boys, who usually go to the front at 18, to marry first and beget children. Reason: "Even if the present war is lost, tomorrow's war can be won by the children of today's soldiers...