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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great part of my family is still in Santo Domingo, I am forced to ask you to keep this matter confidential as retaliation is the weapon that the despot uses in the most effective manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Navy high command warned Admiral Husband E. Kimmel on Dec. 3 that Jap diplomats and consuls all over the world were destroying their papers and codes. General Miles did not ask the Navy to pass this message along to General Short at Honolulu. Said he: "That was not considered necessary. ... I believed that the Navy messages were being transmitted to the Army in Hawaii and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: They Called It Intelligence | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...part of Bellamy's job, or of the booster tradition, to ask what the gentlemen would be doing at that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: In the U.S. Tradition | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...seems as though I'll never get rich. I can't do anything about that. . . . He [Hitler] was just here but no dog and no cupboard. He didn't even ask me if I had a birthday wish. So now I bought myself some jewelry. . . . Hope he likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dear Diary | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...gratitude for all those who paid the price of victory we now ask Thy guidance as we dedicate ourselves to that cause for which they gave their last whole measure of devotion. Lord of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget! Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wainwright's Prayer | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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