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Word: begged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...allies take care of the details. Bin Laden is currently hiding out in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, and that country's ruling Taliban militia has no intention of handing him over despite new U.N. sanctions. A finding tying Bin Laden to the Cole attack will, of course, beg the question of U.S. retaliation. But there's no easy way of striking back at an adversary with few fixed assets. President Clinton's 1998 cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and the Sudan were, at best, a singularly ineffective response and at worst played right into Bin Laden's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Urgent Attention: President Bush | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

...will doubtlessly leave the theater with much to think about. The play's vivid engagement of the themes of interracial and interethnic dating certainly beg discussion and debate. But in the end, issues can't conquer all. A Language of Their Own proves that love-in all of its hilarities, joys and frustrations...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chay Yew's Dream of a Common Language in the Leverett Old Library | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...began their fight for our approval in earnest - because the winner will be a lot better off with it than without it. The longer this drags on, even party allegiances may be up for grabs, as the voters formerly known as "undecideds" throw up their hands anew and just beg for a winner, no matter which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Winning the P.R. Game? | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...face it. Some states beg to be called backward...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: Queer Nebraska | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their mom and dad to jail.But it was Homer and Frankie who were eventually taken away. One morning, as the boys played on the sidewalk in front of their home, a car stopped shy of the curb. Two men in suits jumped out and grabbed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifteen Years in Foster Hell | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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