Word: begets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...been betrayed by your protectors. Just think of the non-birth-controlling Roman Catholics busy filling the world with more non-birth-controlling Catholics; while you are conserving air, water and food through birth control, the fruitful Catholics are gobbling it all up. The way to combat this problem: beget more Anglicans...
...become even grimmer than it is at present: total war between zip-gun toters and club-swinging police, with the innocent citizen in the middle of it all. The man in blue should not just be a faceless, gun-slinging symbol of an aloof society; antagonism can only beget hate and make the accomplishment of police duties that much more difficult...
...from the walls of Harvard?" Determined that not one whit of Veritas be lost to the future, Sibley resolved to write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every man who ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped punishment," it would nevertheless show...
...before an SS lieutenant general called Adolf Eichmann. who told him: "I am prepared to sell you one million Jews. Blood for money: money for blood. You can take them from any country you like, where-ever you can find them. Whom do you want to save? Men who beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell me." Brand sat down...