Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that if the Government of France is poor and reduced to expedients, it is because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that if the U.S. Government or any responsible organization would float an American loan in France, at almost any exchange rate, and almost any interest, it would be covered overnight by the French people, who would thus guarantee the sums necessary to provide what they so greatly...
...more food. In the U.S., where food was richer and more plentiful than before the war, where everything from elephants to lolly-pops could be bought in the black market, the people began to awaken-a little. Housewives, seeing their grocers' shelves still filled to overflowing, began to ask: "What...
...alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
...club in 1922. The name is an adaptation of his own. Josiah, which means "Jehovah supports." A pantheist by belief, and an Episcopalian to please his wife, he sees mother nature as "Jehovah in His maternal capacity" healing her children. The first Yosians were readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been formed into 50 or so sub-walks under lay Yosians...
...last the bitter rivalry between the two great Commissars seemed ended. For the first time in their long struggle, the master of the Kremlin could turn to his mirror and ask with some assurance...