Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to avoid offending anybody, the Regents adopted this "nondenominational" compromise: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Many school boards adopted the prayer. Normally it was spoken by the class in unison at the start of each school day, with the teacher leading the recitation. In keeping with state court decisions, the Regents notified school authorities that no child could be compelled to say the prayer, and that any child had the right to be excused from the room while the prayer was being...
...Petersburg, but what impressed him most was the man named Carl Fabergé. "My dear Fabergé," said King Ferdinand, "if you were in Bulgaria, I would make you my minister." To which the famous court jeweler replied, "No, no, your majesty, not politics, I beg of you. But minister of the goldsmith's art, why yes, sire, if you will...
...dormitory on Saturday night. For Harvards, it is removal of the bursar's card, the student's official proof that he is a member of the University. Its deprivation is an inconvenience -- without it cashing checks is difficult and borrowing library books impossible. Eventually the student must go and beg to have the card returned. The card is usually given back without undue bitterness, but the formalities require a lot of red tape, no little embarrassment, and several lectures...
Throughout the cold war, the Soviet Union has publicly exploited the apprehensions felt in this country, not just by the business community, but by labor as well. The recent spectre of the AFL-CIO joining thousands of Long Island families to beg the reorder of acknowledgedly obsolete bombers, hardly suggests the willingness to sacrifice or the consciousness of national interest that the President has called...
...Begging for the Scraps. For all the squalor, few slum dwellers would return to the farm. Back home in Chile's Andean highlands Alberto Paredes, 26. earned 25? a day working on a hacienda "with only the wind and the animals." Today in Santiago he makes $1.50 a day as a construction helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made...