Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was not all it sounded. It was merely a way of saying that he had been put in charge of Government's policies toward business monopoly and unfair competition. This week Secretary Sawyer hinted that he would ask for repeal of wartime excise taxes, as something that would give "an incentive to business." It all had an unfamiliar, friendly ring...
...cases out of 100," he continues, "the drunk will never remember about it the next day. He'll usually come back and ask, 'What happened to me last night...
...Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borbón de Pati...
Moods & Mechanics. Holding the reader firmly but not condescendingly by the hand, Frankenberg plunges directly into the work of the modern poets. In an illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern...
...always fighting with her mother because whenever she had a date her mother wanted her to help with the dishes. At the doctor's suggestion, the girl played the mother, and accused her daughter (herself) of many wanted things, among which was "always reading the CRIMSON when I ask you to help...