Word: beseeched
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...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...
...embark on the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." Ike kept in his pocket another communique he had written in case of disaster: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn the troops. If there is any blame...
...ROTC issue at Harvard, and in view of your editorial, "Curbing ROTC" which was in the edition of 5 February (". . . yesterday's decision should not be the final episode of the ROTC debate here"), I leap at this chance to supply fuel for the pyre. Specifically, I beseech you to furnish me a medium to express my THANKS...
...that tries its feeble best to pursue the elusive truth, or does it want one that responds to the pressures of the day? If you don't think we live up to this ideal, and we often don't, you should criticize us and thereby strengthen us. But I beseech you not to start the dangerous game of interfering in the selection of Faculty members, for that is a game that any number can play. Robert Dorfman Professor of Economics
Zinn has decided that he can ignore Oliver Cromwell's eloquent plea: "In the bowels of Christ, I beseech you, bethink you that you may be mistaken...