Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the war, the natives remained fiercely loyal to the British, who had brought them these blessings. Some of the Company's officers were interned in a leper colony by the Japs. One day, a group of loyalist lepers came up to the Company's Governor to ask if they could bump off some other lepers (who had collaborated with the Japs) when & if the Company's rule was restored after the war. Asked the Governor: "Why don't you do it now?" Replied one of the lepers: "The Japs would kill...
JINNAH: Did I not ask you to reject the Cripps plan in 1942 and Wavell plan...
JINNAH: Why do I ask you to accept this plan now? Have I changed...
...speech last week, Miko added a postscript to the message: "There are those who ask what we, the unarmed, can do, although there are millions of us, when brutal force attacks us. I told [Communist Vice Premier Wladyslaw] Gomulka: 'You cannot shoot...
...walkout came to an end when it was agreed that vegetables harvested from the gardens would be equitably distributed. Flurried by the unexpectedly bold action of the children, the teachers visited the homes of the young strikers to apologize for their highhanded action and ask for their immediate return to the school...