Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable to steal happiness on the sly. They dream of going to Moscow, the perennial illusion of the despairing that life is more real, rich and exciting somewhere else...
...were rarely seen in class, and their ages ran well into the 30s. All during turbulent 1963, Castroite F.A.L.N. terrorists took refuge on the campus-which is off limits to police. Recently, Castroite students beat up two policemen found on campus; and two others were forced to kneel and beg for their lives...
...complex along Route 128, researchers realize that they have been showered with federal riches beyond their most hopeful dreams of 20 years ago. But they are quick to point out that some fields, such as oceanography, are neglected, and astronomy, which is in a stage of lively excitement, must beg for funds...
Millionaires beg like mendicants for Shoemaker's services. Trainers claim that a race horse improves by two or three lengths simply by having Willie on its back. Bettors lucky enough to back him on one of his hot days (eight times in his career he has won six races on a single card) have been known to buy Rolls-Royces and retire in splendor to places like Palm Beach and Acapulco. And whenever a big race rolls around, the notation "Jockey: W. Shoemaker" opposite a horse's name is often enough to send it off the favorite. That...
Oklahoman Charles D. Whitwill had to beg and borrow to raise nearly $50,000 three years ago to open the first round-the-clock coin-operated laundry in Paris, at ten times what it would have cost him in the U.S.; then he had to educate French housewives in how to use it. Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute société sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with...