Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, the week's cover subject being determined generally by that week's news, there was hardly time to ask him to sit for his portrait (in the case of our World War II enemies, for instance, it was obviously impossible...
Then, said Hughes, he telephoned Juan Trippe and the Pan Am chief had flown to California. "I asked him what he would do about Senator Brewster. He said he would ask him to hold up the investigation and also try to delay hearings on the community air bill with the hope that we might get together on both matters...
That was about all there was to say, except to ask that a special grand jury be called to investigate the killing. Judge Clyde H. Brown, McMath's close friend and law partner, who had run and won with him in last November's election, said he would do that...
Last winter, a group of high-school and college students who had banded together for informal bull sessions at the church decided to form a "prayer-cell." One discipline to which they bound themselves was to ask a stranger each day, "Do you believe in prayer?" One night when Pastor Burkhart was eating alone in a restaurant, he fell into conversation with the waitress and suddenly sprang his day's query on prayer. "Well, big boy," she said, visibly shaken, "I must say that's the most unusual approach I've ever heard...
...Louis Cardinals who took the flag away from them. Last week the first-place Dodgers and the second-place Cards met in a crucial three-game series. By the time the series had ended, it looked as if the Dodgers might have cured their old weakness, would have to ask no forgiveness from Flatbush...