Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier-prisoner at the "hotel" testified that he had heard Defendant Smith ask another prisoner where he had been wounded. When the soldier told Smith, the sergeant "rammed a club" into the spot indicated...
...Assembly must understand," said France's Finance Minister René Pleven, "that we cannot ask aid abroad without first putting our house in order ourselves." After a searching session, the Assembly understood. It approved: 1) a devaluation of the franc (119 to the dollar, instead of 50 to the dollar); 2) a $550,000,000 loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank; 3) French participation in the Bretton Woods agreement...
...first time, the Son of Heaven held a press conference. Strolling the palace grounds, he met (by carefully arranged coincidence) six aging Japanese newsmen who had "covered" the Imperial household for a decade, with never an audience. They bowed low. Asked the Emperor: Did the newsmen have enough to eat? Had they been bombed out? Then, under strict orders to ask no questions and to write no stories, the newsmen bowed again. The press conference was ended...
...robot went on strike in Paris. This civil servant, a machine that tells the time over the telephone, did not ask for more; it simply got stuck. Over & over it told Parisians that the time was 9:04 a.m., thereby made many late for work...
Almost unnoticed in the excitement was the tacit admission of American Overseas Airlines that Pan Am's rate-cutting might have been justified. American too cut its New York-London fare to $375. This, it admitted, was still too high. But, it said piously, it would ask I.A.T.A. for permission to reduce fares further, thus conforming to Britain's rules...