Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Government showed little desire to press damage charges against squatters or ask heavy sentences for the five Communists arrested on conspiracy charges during the squat. Meanwhile, the Communist Party line had become almost as occult as the Indian rope trick: to disclaim responsibility for inciting the squatters, while claiming credit for all progress made in the housing situation...
...nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union. The lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document; 3) to call for a standing commission on Church Unity to be set up by the Lambeth Conference...
...bishops' palms were no tougher than the deputies'. In two hours of debate they passed the lower-house resolution with but one mild amendment (to ask the 1948 Lambeth Conference for "advice & counsel" instead of a new commission...
...much to ask that these issues, so important for the future, be kept off the plane of yellow journalism? Edrie Weld...
...Families for the Speedy Return of Japanese Soldiers in the Northern Areas." To the Russians they presented a humble petition: "It is full moon now. We are sure that our soldier sons are looking at the same moon, worrying about us as we are worried about them. We ask for your humane consideration...