Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeated occasions I had members of the Harvard community ask me about relatives," Riera said. "They wanted to make sure that our families and the island in general were okay...
...activist community is not taking this lying down. It is, I am happy to report, taking a unified moral position in opposition to something more important than whether the Undergraduate Council (a body possessing hypothetical power) should ask the faculty and administration (which will hypothetically listen to the council) to consider the (hypothetical) return to campus of the Reserve Officers Training Corp (which doesn't want to return anyway...
Even the dead bride's Thatcher fixation tells a larger tale. The young woman, it seems, idolized Thatcher, not because she shared her politics but because with a single phrase Thatcher once captured her own world view: "If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman...
...would like to ignore the texts entirely, but the college entrance exams test the books' content. "They can actually ask you how exactly Marx learned English," he says. (By writing for American newspapers, it turns out.) "So we have to go through them. But we also try to come up with exercises that get to the real questions of English grammar. Now, which word do you think belongs in the blank...
...woman who, when asked why she binged and purged, tells a story about her father, who would fast on religious holidays. Her mother would get upset and ask him not to fast, but he would respond, "A little penance never hurt anyone...