Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have won more, if only his standards weren't so high. No member of the squad was allowed to drink or smoke; to break those rules was to beg instant dismissal. His strongest epithet was "jackass," or "double jackass" if he really got carried away, and he used ii so often that a rival coach remarked...
...encouraged to hear on a shortwave broadcast that the U.S. had retaliated for a Viet Cong attack. However, the rest of the day the Voice of America appeared to be making excuses and apologies. Do we have to beg pardon every time we take action? Are the Viet Cong the enemy or not? Let's stop kidding ourselves, because we are not fooling anyone else...
...conniving to forget how they once so cheerily connived with the Nazis. Yet Böll lacks the slashing, ultimately healing fury of Günter Grass. The Clown comes to an abrupt end when the hero, stripped of hope, puts on his whiteface makeup and goes out to beg among the costumed crowds of the Rhineland's Fasching revels...
Fearing Israeli retaliation, tiny Lebanon last week tried to beg off. Its Premier, Hussein Oweini, suggested that the pumping station might be built in Syria instead of Lebanon. When the other Arab leaders wrathfully pointed out that the only possible Syrian location was so close to the frontier that it lay within range of Israeli guns, Oweini finally gave in. But, nervous at the risk of foreign politics on his soil, he rejected the proposal that troops from other Arab states be stationed in Lebanon for "protection" against the Israelis...
...told police he had been working for Egyptian intelligence for a monthly salary of $100 to $160. During the past ten months, he had been based in Naples, presumably spying on NATO installations. He had come to Rome, he said, to beg a raise in salary. This story convinced nobody, for if Luk were merely a disgruntled small fish, it would hardly have been worth the trouble to kidnap him. The suspicion grew that Luk was either a double agent, also working for Israel, or that the Egyptians thought he was. Later reports linked Luk to a Western European power...