Word: ask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity for the Latin American swing came from Western dawdling that failed to put Turkey into the race until last month. That gave Poland time to ask for commitments from the Latin Americans. They agreed because of three factors...
...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...
...They played a strong game, and were just a better team than we were. We just didn't move the ball as well as they did.... We came out of the game pretty well physically, which is as much as you can ask.... It's nice to have someone like Crouthamel on your side, though I think we do pretty well ourselves.... Penn will be rough, but we can be, too. We'll come back...
There was a pause in the conversation and Professor Edel smiled curiously. "I thought you were going to ask me what I thought of quiz shows!" he said...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19--President Eisenhower, calling today a "sad day for the nation," ordered government lawyers to ask a federal court to send 500,000 striking steelworkers back to the mills for 80 days...