Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...
...World War II's huge omnibus program made all former veterans legislation look like nickel jitney rides. Deeply aware of their obligations, nevertheless U.S. taxpayers had reason to feel misgivings, as the nation embarked on the most far-reaching veterans program in history. How long, it might well ask itself, does a war last...
...rare moments when he seemed just himself ("Will you go to hell with my compliments?") the operators felt less uncomfortable. But in two weeks of negotiating, Lewis had thundered no heads-will-roll ultimatums. The operators, fearing that he might ask for bigger raises than they could balance with price rises, were almost eager to settle for the going 18½?-an-hour increase. But Lewis could not seem to bring himself to talk paychecks. Instead, he dramatized the need for a miner's "health and welfare fund," hinted that he might ask reduction of their current 54-hour...
...Davidson and Hare it is the University's "feeling that the married student is a temporary, if necessary evil" and its unwillingness to "lose money en temporary housing" that account for the "totally inadequate job up to now. "If M.I.T. can build new houses, why can't Harvard?" they ask...
...desk set to President Truman last May, Moore said: "Well, I'm an old friend of Harry's and I'm going to Washington anyway. Why don't I give it to him in person?" The publicity he got was all any organization could ask for-a fine, clear picture of the President and Lion Moore, displayed in newspapers all over the country and in LIFE...