Word: ask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clear Record. In Phoenix, Ariz., Representative David Hill Campbell had a sign on his desk in the Arizona state legislature: "Don't ask me for any information. If I knew anything, I would not be here...
...land reforms in feudal Tibet. Yes. said Narayan, and, in the days of empire, the British had introduced valuable reforms in India-railways, telegraphs, administration-"so we should have welcomed them in our country, but we didn't. That is really an amazing question for an Indian to ask...
...Ask Any Girl. David Niven tries some motivational research on Shirley Mac Laine, a Raggedy Antic charmer...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...help my mother get a good strong foothold in her work in Detroit. Give me, O Lord, the sense to learn algebra and to be useful in the Scouts. Amen.") Hill is also astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says, the rite of confirmation means forgiveness of sins more than admission into the adult fellowship of the church...