Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed to let him steady his capsule as it curved along its predetermined arc in space. On the third orbit, Titov ate a three-course lunch, squeezed out of tubes like toothpaste. On the seventh orbit, after 9¼ hours in the air, Titov passed over Moscow, radioed: "I beg to wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours of sleep, actually overslept by 35 minutes. On the ground, Russian scientists kept telemetered watch over the sleeping...
...cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people are regularly reduced to living on cactus flour; large numbers line the roads to beg...
...prayer in question, intended by the state's Board of Regents to avoid just such legal controversies: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country...
...bring the public closer to poetry, Jarrell offered a sly suggestion. "It is customary for poets to recommend poetry to you, and to beg you to read it as much as you ought, instead of as little as you do. But perhaps it is a mistake to keep telling people that poetry-is a good thing after all, one they really ought to like better; tell them about money, even, and they will finally start thinking something is wrong with it. Perhaps instead of recommending poetry as a virtue, poets should warn you against it as a vice...
...battle, neither the artist's eye nor his skill could freeze the scene with absolute accuracy. But the Special came astonishingly close. His severest critics were the troops; when the illustrated weeklies reached the front, their pictures were carefully measured against the memories of the subjects themselves. "I beg to say," wrote a major of the 9th New York Regiment to Leslie's in 1862, "that your illustrations of the victories on Roanoke Island are very correct." If the artist erred, he was certain to hear of it. Alfred Waud was greeted with derisive hoots for his picture...