Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need or want the Catholic Church's absolution [Oct. 22]. If it's forgiving that the Ecumenical Council is concerned with, then every Catholic clergyman in the world should beg the Jews to forgive them for the pogroms that were perpetrated by and in the name of "the Holy Mother Church" and those that by their silence they condoned. Their forgiveness comes more than 1,900 years too late...
...buses brought adherents from as far as Jammu, north of Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...
...disembowel any cars and trucks that travel it. Construction on the $40 million Artibonite Valley irrigation project has stopped, and 30-ft.-high cacti choke the rich sisal fields outside Port-au-Prince. Bankruptcies are rising sharply in the capital, and in the countryside starving peasant mothers beg visitors to buy their babies for two gourdes, or 400 U.S., in hopes that the infants will survive. The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 last season. In many areas, tax collections are only...
...chickens to languish in the city in a cramped spare room. Still short of capital, he makes a hilarious botch of peddling himself as playmate for a prune-faced contessa. Finally, he tries to retain the stance of a jealous husband while sending his wife off to beg a loan from an old admirer...
...Citizens have absolutely no voice in the disposition of the Federal and city taxes they pay. Every year the D.C. Commissioners must prostrate themselves before the House District Committee and beg for minimum amounts of money for schools, hospitals, welfare, etc. They must submit to blackmail by the Committee, such as when, a couple of years ago, the Commissioners were warned not to issue a fair housing ordinance upon pain of not receiving an appropriation for schools and hospitals; or when last year the District Committee insisted on retaining the privilege of sifting through the traffic tickets and taking...