Word: begged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Concerning the last section, "Inappropriate Abstinence," I beg leave to add a clarifying footnote. You state: "Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence." By implication, this appears to say that Methodist publications now sanction "appropriate drinking...
Injuries dropped the Harvard wrestling team out of contention with Cornell on Saturday, as the Beg Red reasserted its wrestling dominance with a 28-12 victory...
...Book publishers rarely beg the government to prosecute a book for obscenity. But that is just about what the English firm of Calder & Boyars did early this year. The book was Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, which had been banned in London's Soho district (TIME, Dec. 30). Under English custom, such local rulings tend to be honored throughout the country. Calder & Boyars decided that the only way to lift the ban was a full-scale trial, and the government finally agreed to prosecute. Said Publisher John Calder: "I'm sure we'll win before a jury...
Figures can also be painful reminders of the things that U.S. society has not achieved. Who can calculate the square miles of slums that beg renovation or the poverty that remains a blight on the industrial society? No fewer than 30 million Americans make up families that earn less than $3,000 per year-the figure set by the Government as the poverty level...
...Conducting "beg-ins" to raise money for the North Vietnamese at those churches which will not sponsor anti-war activities