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Word: begged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allison said this week, "it is the problem of machinery to insure well reasoned decisions which all the constituents of the University will regard as legitimate." He quoted from the report: "'Solutions' that do not specify the machinery of choice and implementation rarely solve any problem. More often, they beg it." Such radical talk-at least from a committee-indicates that controversies like Campaign GM should be met not with philosophical but with pragmatic political innovations. "It's almost impossible to find any guidelines for corporate virtuousness," Allison said. "Yet the Treasurer and the Corporation make such judgments every...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Politics of Money | 12/3/1970 | See Source »

...think it's good; and it is the kind of art that people are becoming interested in now," she said. "It's awful having to beg people to review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics, Reviewers Ignore Woman's Art Show | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

...brief sentences, to this effect: The students on this campus are confused, they're frightened. They don't know what to think. You are older than we are, and more experienced. We want guidance from you, moral leadership. On behalf of my fellow students, I beg you to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Understanding Blue Mother | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Burn your bras (if you don't sag). But, please, don't deny your femininity; it is a part of your significance as a human being (it is not nearly all of your worth, although some of my sex seem to think it is). And, I beg of you, do not throw your children into day-care centers; she (he) needs you. Rearing a child is no menial task, but is too momentous to be subordinated and too important to fail. Its importance and difficulty should be recognized, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1970 | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...bars, injured three white G.I.s, who had to be hospitalized, and terrorized most of the German citizenry. Another crowd of black troops descended on a civilian police station in Schweinfurt and forced frightened local officials to release a black G.I. who they claimed had been unjustly arrested. White prisoners beg for transfers from the big Army stockade at Mannheim, where friction between white guards and angry black prisoners has sparked at least three riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Black Explosions in West Germany | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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