Word: beseeches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
...Romans 12: 1, Paul says: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service...
...loving father had been found at last. Boswell fell at the great man's feet to confess what a bad boy he had been and to beseech counsel. Johnson gave it without stint, and when Boswell sailed for the continent a few weeks later he made a two-day journey to Harwich to put him on board and to comfort a frightened young man he had known little more than two months...
Alas, Emily is in love with somebody almost as saccharine as herself: a Noble Youth endowed with "manly frankness, simplicity, and keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...
Harold Wilson arrived at U.N. headquarters in New York last week to appeal for reason. "I beseech this assembly," said he, "to give us time to deal with this situation. Calm, cool counsels are more likely to settle this issue. If passions take control, this mad action could be the beginning of a new and more dangerous conflict, unlike any in world history." Before he began to speak, 25 African delegates (including eight Commonwealth representatives) had walked out on him. Snapped Tanzania's Ambassador John Malecela: "Africa feels the United Kingdom is stalling...