Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Copacabana Beach apartment really earned more than the $2,000 he declared on his tax form. At present, revenue agents are combing through membership lists in yacht and race-track clubs, checking the resources of Brazilian tourists abroad. Hostesses who once boasted about their cuisine now beg society columnists not to mention the delicacies served at their dinners...
...First, Buddhist monks do not beg for their food. They are offered it willingly and graciously by people who, in so doing, gain "merit" to augment their spiritual lives. Second, Udorn, Ubon and the parts of Bangkok that are neon-lit especially to indulge U.S. servicemen are to many other peoples an indictment of Western civilization. American-style nightclubs, restaurants and bowling alleys tend to disrupt longestablished, often exquisitely delicate patterns of life. For this we will increasingly be asked to answer. Third, the insect sauce is delicious with roast chicken...
...have lost their freedom by their own misdeeds. You will recall that Field Marshal Rommel put his criminal elements together in a motorcycle battalion and subsequently awarded them several unit citations. Many of us at Kentucky State Penitentiary are youthful offenders; some, like me, have had military training. We beg for a chance to prove ourselves on the Viet Nam battlefront...
...State Department, huffed Rudolf Bing, apparently does not think that the Metropolitan Opera "is important enough to be sent abroad." The Met, he said, cannot afford the trip, and "the State Department has given us nothing. We have to beg, and we are tired of begging." So he took matters into his own hands. Last week, with a gift of $140,000 from private donors, Bing packed up 50 tons of scenery and costumes, bundled 163 members of his company onto two chartered jets, and took the Met to Europe for the first time in 56 years...
...Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is now studying in England, prepping for Rug by school and kingship as Rama X. And like his ancestors, Bhumibol in the tenth year of his reign shaved his head, retired briefly to a monastery, and went out at dawn's light to beg for his food...