Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come what might on Election Day, the President was relaxed. He told the Shriners: "People ask me how I could find the strength to campaign so hard and for so long. That's easy-I'm out of jail when I'm out campaigning...
...repertory group of its own. There have been, and still are, several local groups operating is Boston on a repertory basis but enjoyment of their presentations has usually required either a blind admiration for the play itself or a charitable turn of mind. The Boston Repertory group promises to ask of its audiences very little (there is even a 30 percent price reduction for students) and to give in return competent, professional productions...
...three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone suggested that the concert be relayed by amplifier to the large hall on the opposite side of the building. No attention was paid him. The second time he repeated his suggestion the yard cop said he would ask about it, came back in a minute and reported that it was impossible since no previous arrangements had been made...
...amendment. The Committee says that since 1929 more than $135,000,000, around a third of the tax intake, has been poured into projects "more politically expedient" than roads. The result has been, the group says, a deterioration of Commonwealth roads. The Committee also claims it is unfair to ask a motorist who travels 20,000 miles a year for business purposes to pay twice as much in auto taxes to non-highway projects as the motorist who only rides 10,000 miles...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...