Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
...soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like to ask that the folks who came ... to hear the singers wait a few minutes, or there will be no more audience at this show...
...current predictions come true, New England will have the forge-lit skies and smoky haze of a steel industry by 1953. With the migration of the textile companies southward, the six nodtheastern states had begun to ask themselves if their leadership in small industry was finished. But with the discovery a few years ago of a rich vein of iron ore in Newfoundland and Labrador came the hope of an even greater share of the nation's manufacturing wealth. As it stands now, plans are being made to build as steel mill in one of New England's seaports before...
...Navy does not consider presence at an AYD folk dance as potential evidence of subversive activity, why does it ask about participation in these functions? And even if the Navy could use such evidence to prove subversiveness, the asking has a serious deterrent effect far outweighing its value as providing information. 2.) Even if we could be sure that the lists of "subversive" organizations, made up without due process, are entirely accurate, we cannot accept the premise that members of subversive organizations are ipso facto subversive themselves. Obviously there can be more than the two reasons mentioned for remaining...
...swear loyalty to the Communist "people's democracy" and to pledge themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take the oath with the qualification, ". . . Since I am convinced that the government would never ask anything which would be contrary to the laws of God or human rights...