Word: begot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question begot other questions. Does Zhukov represent a new force in Soviet affairs? Has the Red army assumed a new and stronger role in Soviet policy? Not knowing all the answers, the White House reacted skeptically to Zhukov's overtures, but kept open a small hedge on the future. The past, in Georgy Zhukov's case, is also instructive. His hazardous climb from Czarist dragoon to Communist marshal, his differences with the military commissars, his fallings in and out of Communist favor, are significant clues to the nature of the instrument he has wielded with such success...
...Mohammedans, whose earliest success in Arabia came by overthrowing local idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very seriously the Mosaic rule against graven images; they are especially incensed by statues of religious...
...McCarthy's prowess. No man-especially no Senator (other than an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart")-dared stand against him. This myth, propagated mainly by anti-McCarthy "liberals," helped swell McCarthy's headlines, and, since head lines are a form of power, a gross exaggeration of power begot actual power...
...areas is not much different from the transformation he has seen in his native South. Says he: "The Civil War knocked us flat on our backs and left us there . . . Slowly and painfully, we picked ourselves up. We began to be able to save and invest ... A little capital begot more capital; a little expansion begot more expansion . . . The South's story tells how development works...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...