Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will interest your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...seriously suggests that Nehru will be replaced as India's leader while he lives. To his country, he is not a statesman but an idol. Each morning, large crowds assemble on the lawn outside his New Delhi home. Some present petitions or beg favors, but thousands, in recent weeks, have handed over money or gold dust for the national defense. Most come just to achieve darshan, communion, with the country's leader. The throng is comforted and reassured, not by the words, but by the presence of Nehru...
...another defense so soon. Preparing for a cup match is an expensive and exhausting proposition. The owners of the four U.S. boats competing for the right to defend against the Aussies this year spent something like $1,000,000 among them. The U.S. crews are almost all amateurs who beg or borrow time off from their jobs and businesses to compete; Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to victory, cannot afford any more time away from his family oil business. Firmly, but politely, the New York Yacht Club replied that it would deal with the British challenge two years from...
...lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist, has installed a tiny chapel in her office for the benefit of waiting patients and passersby. "I don't claim any miracles from it," she says...
...Beg of You." It was at this belated moment-when the electoral results were officially certified, and the politicians had achieved a compromise in which the feared Haya would have only a minority voice in the government-that the military moved. In a last-minute appeal, Roman Catholic Primate Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts pleaded with General Perez Godoy: "In the name of our Holy Mother, the Church, I beg of you not to break the legal order." Answered Pérez Godoy: "It is too late. The prestige of the army is at stake." Twenty minutes later...