Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ask my impressions of Harvard...
...takes a man with a diversified course to win possession of the pieces of the puzzle, and to assemble them without guidance is to ask too much of his powers of integration. Browsings in Brattle Street, random windings on Beacon Hill and drives to Concord, Salem, Gloucester, Plymouth and points Capeward, even with the tutorial aid of the Massachusetts Guide Book, will not yield the rounded values which some systematic instruction would give...
Then Ernst Kaltenbrunner: "... I have loved my German people and my Fatherland with a warm heart. . . . Germany, good luck. . . ." Then Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, who had nothing to say. Then Hans Frank: "I am thankful for the kind treatment during my imprisonment and I ask God to accept me with mercy." Then Wilhelm Frick: "Long live eternal Germany!" Then Julius Streicher, who looked wild-eyed and yelled "Heil Hitler." When asked for his name, he roared: "You know it well." From the gallows he jeered: "Purim Festival 1946"-and: "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day." As the black hood...
...suffocating. Obsessed with the idea that he might die in the night with the record not yet set straight, he promptly penned a letter ordering his lawyer to demand a retrial. "I have never accepted my condemnation," he wrote. "I benefited from a grace I did not ask for." Next day he was as healthy as ever, but still sulking. "I was right all along [during the Vichy period]," he told Isorni. "I was more of a resister than anybody...
With a final remark on yesterday's effort that "You can't ask any better than the improvement shown today," Jaakko said that he was hopeful about the pay-off meet with Yale and Princeton next Saturday...