Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stinks. I say the same thing of the refuse I read in the Daily Worker. I do not howl for the suppression of the Worker, and neither does the CRIMSON. But Communists howl long and loud about people like Smith, and when the remaining rather few middle class libertarians ask for legal treatment of Smith, they are, inevitably called fascists and Germany is darkly referred to. But I saw Life's photographs showing Communists breaking up a meeting in Hungary, and recall Trotsky's death in Mexico. And here at home I remember Albert Malz's recent attempt to introduce...
...take my money, father. He wants to live on his Navy pay." But in Manchester a working bus driver conceded: "I think the Royal Family gives us something other countries haven't got. I'm willing to pay for it." King George was expected to ask Parliament for ?35,000 a year for Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would get their own town house, though they expected to start by living with the family. Unlike his great-great-grandfather, Victoria's Prince Albert, Philip would almost certainly...
...guests began to ask questions again: "Who's this lunch for? What's it all about?'' Even Nick Carey, the FTC's elderly publicity man, shrugged: "I wish I knew...
...reporter asked if she enjoyed reading as much as music. "Oh yes," said Eva. And did she have any favorites? "Why do people ask me questions like that? I like everything I read." But surely she must have some favorites. "Well," said Eva, her brow furrowed in agonized thought, "Plutarch." "He's an ancient writer," she added hastily...
...bumped into an Italian woman who had rushed forward to ask that her son be allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...