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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Executive Mansion, Republican Governor Tom Herbert will have only himself to blame. Practical John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Getting Warmer | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Watsey I ask my Galiffa she Cain come and watch Harvard Blaik Army in half?" asked his disciple...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Oriental Sees Blaik Turning Crimson in Tilt's Aftermath | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...this happens, Veritas of Hollywood could sue for profits--which are non-existent--and damages. They could also ask for a restraining injunction, and thereby possibly cash in on Veritas Films' name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veritas Films Faces Possible Lawsuit As Hollywood Outfit Disputes Name | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Will the British Cook? A good many U.S. and British policymakers were reluctant to base a European defense system on France. Said one British diplomat in Paris: "The Communists or their informers sit in every French ministry. What can you tell them, I ask you? Any military secret we reveal will be in Moscow in 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Watch on the Rhine | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...haste to protect farmers from this latest evil of free competition, the U.S. planned a quick conference with Canada. It hoped to restrict shipments of Canadian potatoes-and hoped no one would ask how this fitted loud U.S. talk of freer world trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Hot Potato | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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