Word: beseeched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of the War for Independence, the Continental Congress interrupted its routine to deliver an important message to the public. The American people, Congress implored, should beseech God that "vice, prophaneness, extortion, and every evil may be done away ... that we may be a reformed and happy people...
...week's end Sant'Alfio was evacuated in advance of the relentless lava. Lacking any help from the scientists, the people of the mountain could only continue to beseech their saints for help in cooling Vulcan's fiery forge...