Word: begging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students had been provoked by a massive reshuffle of the Egyptian Cabinet, which appeared to them to beg the issues, and a heavily publicized television speech by Sadat in which he ineptly explained away his repeated promise that 1971 would be Egypt's "year of decision." It would have been. Sadat said lamely, except that the India-Pakistan war "drew the attention of the entire world and became a battle of the big powers, affecting our battle" and preventing him from going...
...Golden Egg," you say that the gifts to the Governors [Nov. 22] were "a little tasteless." I beg to differ with you. Twas nothing more than a gracious act on the part of the people of the state of Georgia...
...Muller learned to hit back-a course of action facilitated by his increasing size and bulk. To hear him tell his adventures, he is a biblical avenger with a charmed life. Armed punks beg for mercy after a dose of his righteous fists. During World War II, he cold-cocks a Navy boxing champion with one punch. Japanese machine-gun bullets buzz between his legs as comrades fall around him. Nearly 15 years later, Muller's luck even holds when he stops a thief's bullet with his skull...
...within two hours has landed a respectable catch. Mussolini jumps into the water and grabs a fat pike. Hitler orders the pond drained. As the fish flop about helplessly on the bottom, Chamberlain asks Hitler: "Why don't you scoop them up?" Hitler replies: "They have to beg me first...
...have little admiration for the Harvard Administration or its sheriff, Archibald Cox. But when Cox fought back tears to continually plead, "I beg of you to let the speakers be heard," he commanded my empathy and respect. When rational discourse and reasoned argument are abandoned for obscene rhetoric and frenzied screaming, the time has come not to reassess national but personal priorities, and determine what we are learning and living and fighting...