Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...other service, i.e., the Air Force. He could not do it under law, he admitted, and there had been no thought of any such move anyhow. Said Johnson humbly: "I want you to know that before any step of this kind would be seriously considered, I should ask permission to discuss the matter before the committees of both houses of Congress...
Spring Is Here. McNeil spoke up again. "When I am working hard ... I think it not unreasonable to ask my wife to provide me with a hot meal," said McNeil, "but I have been known to urge my wife to leave the making of the Sunday lunch to me ... I make a very excellent Sunday lunch." U.S. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt threw a sharper spear: "Who does the housework in the Soviet Union? Is it always done by the men, or are all the services performed through some communal arrangement...
...visiting newshawks were given a free rein on questions and drinking water, but Valpey's short talk was so disarming and complete that nobody could think up anything to ask him after he finished...
...Ask the average citizen what the U.S. military tradition consists of and he might mumble something about plenty of planes, tanks and guns. In Eleven Generals, Military Chronicler Fletcher Pratt argues that the unique U.S. contribution is something different: the inbred American conviction that "wars are ultimately won through the aimed fire of individuals...