Word: begged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...platforms of railroad stations or in the jhuggis-sheet-metal and jute huts-that are home to hundreds of thousands of Bombay's poor. There is little work to be found, and in the past few months, with no money and often no shelter, many have had to beg. Accustomed to providing for themselves, they are humiliated and bitter that the government has not done anything to alleviate their plight. Since most of them have no money, they cannot even take advantage of the "fair price shops"-so called because they sell below the regular market price...
...Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...
...said McGovern was doing much better until the California primary when "the Kennedys adopted him." "McGovern does better when he returns to the mood of the first part of his campaign," he said. "He should continue to raise people's hair by saying he would go to Hanoi and beg for the prisoners...
...first Hitler accepted his fate passively. In Vienna before World War I, he could have supported himself modestly by painting watercolors, but he chose to live in poverty, sleep in flophouses, and beg for money on the street. "He seemed to enjoy being dirty and even filthy," Langer said. After the defeat of Germany in World War I, Hitler began to feel it his mission to lead his country to greatness, and he invented a new personality for himself that was strong enough to do it. This "Führer personality," Langer noted, "is a grossly exaggerated and distorted conception...
...beg you and the other members of Harvard's governing boards not to be a party to the slow strangulation of Harvard's goose that has laid so many golden eggs," he told...