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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unification had rubbed some of the luster off the post of Secretary of the Navy, and made it harder to fill. Last week when Harry Truman nominated Francis Patrick Matthews for the job, the first question Washington newsmen had to ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Rowboat Sailor | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Vote 'Ja,' indeed," scoffed Depper, a ruddy, sandy-haired carpenter. "They pick a slate of their stooges and then ask you to vote yes so they can claim the stooges are democratically elected. The last time we had the choice between 'Ja' and 'Nein,' it was forced upon us by another great democrat named Adolf Hitler. Do they think we are crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Journey to the West | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander in and ask to see the glass flowers...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: The Germanic Museum | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don't Forget | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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