Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic lawmakers plan to ask the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate Gingrich's book arrangement. After Gingrich's election last week, Wright sent the new whip a copy of Reflections of a Public Man with a pungent inscription: "For Newt, who likes books too." When asked how Gingrich, in his new leadership role, would deal with Wright, Gingrich replied, "Politely...
Those two punctured grapes, discovered on March 12 in a shipment unloaded from the cargo ship Almeria Star in Philadelphia, forced millions of Americans to ask themselves, however fleetingly, whether to take a risk by eating. That the fruit at the salad bar, the peach in Johnny's lunch box, the raspberries in the refrigerator, could be poisonous turned the world upside down. Could the stuff of vitamin C and Cezanne still lifes be hazardous? Was an apple a day more likely to bring the doctor than keep him away? What was the world coming...
...Accepted McFarlane's suggestion in April 1985 that the President telephone Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova to ask him to intervene with Honduran military officials who were holding up the transfer of military supplies to the contras. Reagan made the call, and the ammunition reached the rebels...
...clubs as organizations do not provide alcohol to anyone. When individual club members provide alcohol to or in club-related social settings, such hosts must ask punchees for an I.D. imprinted with a birthdate to determine who may or may not drink...
...gets worse. Another student, overhearing our exchange, asked Chodacki if he could vote again. She told him, "Not if you ask me. But if you just...