Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the neutralists, India's Prime Minister Nehru told his Parliament: "I am not here to blame either party, but I beg and appeal to all the nuclear powers to refrain from these tests while the Geneva conference is on." Cairo's Algumhuria wrote: "As the world cried in panic from Soviet explosions in Moscow a year ago, it does cry in panic today from the Washington explosions...
...fatherly warning'' of automatic excommunication if she continued promoting "flagrant disobedience to the decision to open our schools to ALL." Said she nervously: "If they can show me from the Bible where I am wrong, I will get down on my knees before Archbishop Rummel and beg his forgiveness." Postponing that experience, the archbishop spent two hours conferring with State Lawmaker Buras, recipient of another Rummel letter, who emerged saying that he still opposed all integration. "However," he added, "as a member of the Roman Catholic Church, I must abide by its laws and decisions...
...children of businessmen"). The school offers all the conventional subjects, from art to science, French, history and math. But students attend only classes that interest them. To hold his audience, a teacher may have to lecture while sprawled on the floor. Though most children attend regularly, and some even beg for homework, others play hooky for weeks at a time. One boy failed to appear once in two years. "I think that he must have had strong outside interests," East muses...
...scruple to seduce the farmer's pretty teen-age daughter (Cordula Trantow), involve her in his getaway, and then leave her behind to face the anger of the authorities. He justifies his crime as an act of war. But the baker, who never wanted the war, refuses to beg the moral question it has raised, refuses to help himself if he has to harm the girl. "Better a dope," he says grimly, "than a louse...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...