Word: beseeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sameera, don't go!," I beseech her. But it's too late. When she returns, I see a changed woman. Out on the battlefield, it's a harsh, brutal world. When you're alone and surrounded by enemies, sometimes you have to kill the part of yourself that's human. Her eyes look older and wiser. The pain has made her into a hardened woman. She will never feel the same way about the smell of fresh paint. Or permanent markers...
...humble letter-writer continues: "On behalf of those students who would rather preserve the beauty of the Harvard campus than contribute to the grotesque scene in front of the Science Center, I beseech my fellow Harvard students to cease this destructive and costly littering. Find somewhere else to put your posters and show more respect for the beautiful setting that attracted many of us to Harvard in the first place...
...ground on this part of campus because they know the rules are mostly unenforced and fines are hardly ever levied. On behalf of those students who would rather preserve the beauty of the Harvard campus than contribute to the grotesque scene in front of the Science Center, I beseech my fellow Harvard students to cease this destructive and costly littering. Find somewhere else to put your posters and show more respect for the beautiful setting that attracted many of us to Harvard in the first place. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH '99 April...
There were curlers here and a Kenyan skier there, female hockey players and an Indian luger. Now and then, perhaps, a few niceties got lost in translation ("Oh, we beseech you. Heave-ho, heave-ho," was one of the first lines to greet spectators on the scoreboard), but for the most part the ceremonies so conformed to the textbook that even their "image director" was a man whose first name is Man. Elegiacally minded Japanese may have been calling these the last Games of the 20th century, but the efflorescence of young faces suggested they are really the first...
Must those of us who abhor abortion, then, reconcile ourselves to seeing it spread unchecked? By no means. We can refuse to practice it ourselves-or, if we are male, beseech the women who carry our children to let them be born, and promise to support them, and mean it and do it. We can counsel and preach to others; those of us who are religious can pray. And we need not despair. Though some of our opponents may urge ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY (an actual sign held up at one rally), by far the greater number...