Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes sports car, outboard motorboat for weekend cruises on the Seine. Success, in fact, has so spoiled Anquetil that he tried to beg out of this month's Tour de France. "My morale is no good," he said. Ah, ha! cried sportswriters, who decided that Anquetil was finally over the hill. Oh no! cried his sponsors-a bicycle manufacturer and an aperitif firm, who were counting on Jacques to spread their gospel...
...state. On TV and before the crowds, Brizola rails against the foreign businessmen in Brazil, cries for expropriation of their property, demands friendship with Castro, and denounces everything Yankee. But now Brizola is getting better than he gives. In paid ads in Rio's papers, he wailed: "I beg for, I demand justice against the group which manipulates the powerful Diários Associados machine in its campaign of infamies and injurious attacks against...
...child. With her mother, Christine moved into a converted bus coach near the Thames that was little more than a shanty on wheels. Even then, Christine's eye was on the main chance. Often she would climb up on the knee of a neighbor and beg to be told about the bright lights in the big cities. "She was forever asking me to tell her stories about life in London," recalls the neighbor. "I spent hours telling her about her dreamland...
...Fire & Pain. In the same terms, thanks to his newly assumed role of reluctant lecturer. Author Baldwin has now begun to exhort his own people to accept the past and learn to live with it. "I beg the black people of this country," said he last week, "to do something which I know to be very difficult: to be proud of the auction block, and all that rope, and all that fire, and all that pain...
...will satisfy De Gaulle, while preserving the U.S. ideal of a strong and united Europe as part of the cold war alliance. To achieve this aim, the U.S. would certainly have to climb down off some major points of past policy, though there was little readiness to rush to beg De Gaulle's pardon or give him everything he demanded...