Word: beseeches
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This blunt statement comes from Philip H. Phenix, 46, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Most U.S. schools firmly believe that they do provide the values he demands. On the premise that happy men create a healthy society, they teach and beseech children to use their abilities. By thus stressing self-realization, the schools in theory promote "the greatest good to the greatest number." It is Philosopher Phenix's jarring argument that all this is morally shallow-that U.S. schools in fact promote selfishness...
...ludicrous for praying Jews to beseech God to "take us back to Zion, thy holy city," when they can do this by taking the next boat...
...integrationist, have the right to have his voice heard and his experienced and mature judgment considered when what the state will do to and with his own child is decided, or doesn't he? If this right can be denied by arbitrary and unappealable federal fiat, than I beseech you, in the name of God, to tell us what human or civil right remains...
...torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems ("I beg you, I beseech you") to come out into the streets demonstrating for De Gaulle-an appeal which, had it been heeded, might easily have set off the worst blood bath in Algerian history...
...beseech thee, O Lord Almighty, master of the world, distributor of all properties, bless this house wherein shall be received and distributed the compulsory and just part of the riches of our community. Give to those who bring their taxes a spirit of detachment and sacrifice, to those who come to receive payment some of the spirit of wealth praised by our Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew...