Word: begging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider his punishment. He said, "I have never known a soldier, nor did I ever myself wantonly kill a human being in my entire life... Yesterday you stripped me of my honor. Please, by the actions you take here today, don't strip future soldiers of their honor, I beg...
Professor Cox at one point begged the disrupters to allow the speakers to be heard. Under the circumstances, he may be forgiven the lapse. We must refuse to beg for free speech at Harvard. We must insist upon it. If the Faculty fails to express its repulsion at what happened Friday night, and demand punishment of the disrupters; if the Administration fails to proceed with the punishment; and most of all if we the students fail to make clear our horror that here at Harvard men were prohibited from speaking freely, we will all share the guilt that falls...
...means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority,- let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor to improve us by kindly pointing out our faults...
...belligerent harangue, like Sadat's calmer interviews with U.S. Newsmen James Reston and Walter Cronkite, was designed to show the world-and the Jarring negotiators-that Egypt is not war weary enough to beg for peace and negotiate away territory. The scene in Tanta was a far cry from Sadat's first executive address before the National Assembly last October, when he was so unsure of himself that he drew only a polite patter of handclaps. Sadat became the butt of jokes. Now the jokes are subsiding. "No doubt about it," says a U.S. State Department official, "Sadat...
Hope Against Hope is Nadezhda Mandelstam's recollection of the four years during which she and her husband wandered as nonpersons through the small cities and towns of Russia. They were harassed by officials, plagued by spies, kept from steady work and forced to borrow, beg and live in the corners of cold rooms. Their constant companion was the realization that they could be arrested at any time for any reason. "Give us a man and we will make a case" was a big office joke among the secret police...