Word: begot
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...most brutal half of basketball Harvard has played all season begot the biggest win of the year for the Crimson, as the men’s basketball team roared back from a nine-point halftime deficit to beat archrival Princeton, 50-43, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion. After scoring only 12 points in the opening period, Harvard dashed off a 15-0 run early in the second half to take control of the game and gain vengeance for the team’s double-overtime defeat at Princeton on Feb. 9. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 16 February 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your letter about the condition of my youngest scares me less than you might think. Well-deserved punishment for my having taken the most important step in life so rashly. I begot children with a physically and morally inferior person and cannot complain if they turn out accordingly. Only they will accuse me one day when they are old enough; they will be only too right, unfortunately. So send my poor boy wherever you and Bernstein see fit, if you really think something of it. And even if you silently...
...House, among other examples, Harold Ford Sr. begot Harold Ford Jr., Mo Udall begot Mark Udall, and Mo's brother Stewart, Interior Secretary under J.F.K., begot Tom Udall...
...used to be about payola disguised as youth rebellion—now it’s not even about the videos. The New Yorker recently reported that the number of music videos on the channel that begot them dropped by a third between 1998 and 2000. Numbers aside, witness the atrocity that was the 2001 MTV Video Awards: The Spike Jonze-directed video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” was clearly shafted when “Lady Marmalade” was awarded best video of the year. Apparently not even the sight...