Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herald Tribune pointed out: "It is time for Republicans to stop and ask themselves seriously just what the party proposes to do with its new power. ... It has no mandate to return to a now irrecoverable past of blind isolationism, narrow prejudice, obedience to this or that hidden pressure or influence, the whole McKellar brand of demagoguery. ... It is the party leadership which is now meeting the first tests of public opinion...
...Britain might ask for a trusteeship to be shared by several powers, including the U.S., which has always ducked responsibility for Palestine. (If Britain forced the issue in U.N., there might be no chance for the U.S. to duck...
...conceivably, Britain might ask for direct U.N. administration in Palestine, on the model of Trieste...
...Bogotá the airport radio operator for the airline (Avianca, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways) received a routine message: the DC-4 was 30 minutes out, would soon ask for landing instructions. For several hours there was no more. Then came a message from upcountry. Thirty miles north of the field, Avianca's DC-4 nad crashed into the vertical, cloud-shrouded face of Mt. Tablazo. a 9,000-foot peak in the Sierra Sabana range. Then it fell flaming, 1,000 feet into the ravine below. The DC-4's 53 were dead...
People to whom it is applied, said the Times, "do not go, they proceed. They do not have, they are (or, more often are not) in possession of. They do not ask, they make application for. . . . They cannot eat, they only consume; they perform ablutions; instead of homes they have places of residence in which, instead of living, they are domiciled. They are not cattle, they are not ciphers, they certainly are not human beings: they are personnel...