Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truck along the 166-mile road to Bakwanga, stronghold of onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed with bows and arrows, could resist the "invaders," Kalonji hastily flew off to Elisabethville to beg aid from his fellow secessionist, President Moise Tshombe of Katanga-the mineral-rich province immediately to the southeast. But Lumumba's platoons, led, so Kalonji claimed, by Czech officers, rolled into Bakwanga and took over the town and its nearby diamond mine with scarcely a shot...
...Roman Catholic who is convinced that Nixon and Lodge are far more able to lead the country through the next eight years than are Kennedy, Bowles and Stevenson, I beg all the letter writers to let the religious issue drop...
Liniment & Snake Weed. He went to Arizona, then to Oklahoma and Kansas, where he had to beg for food. He tried being a cowboy in Wyoming, a homesteader in Nebraska, a farm hand in Missouri and a stock farmer in Texas-all attempts petered out. In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed. At 45 he bought a ranch in the Panhandle that quickly became part of the great Dust Bowl. Finally, in 1946 he turned...
Fringe Benefits. In Rome, Salvatore Bruzzese, 30, denied he was harming his four children by making them beg in the streets, pointed out that he picked them up in his car every evening and often treated them to ice cream...
...prevent you?" The sobbing boy bowed low, and the officer continued: "But you insist on marching along shouting 'We want our freedom!' You know that represents a political demonstration against the government, don't you?" Bowing repeatedly, the student tried to beg forgiveness, but the cop interrupted him: "Now, we will not allow you to attend the meeting. On account of your bad behavior you must come with us instead...