Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of another Veterans' Hospital (prewar, pork-barrel style) in another small town, Muskogee. VA plans call for a new 1,000-bed building in Oklahoma City. But the Senator was looking for a fight. "If the VA does not take this hospital over," he said, "I will ask why when they come before the Senate for more money...
...Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, who with brashness matching Doolittle's had claimed that sea power "ultimately compelled the Japs to ask for peace," Doolittle had an angry rejoinder: "The B-29 boys are probably resting uneasily in their graves as a result of those statements...
Churchill and Bevin had said that Russia should not have the atomic bomb now. Well, Molotov did not ask for it. He simply said that the Russians would get it for themselves...
...Soviet Russia's bright new music, for all its brilliant streamlining, has conspicuously lacked the heartwarming, human quality - the "humanistic sympathy" so despised by Communists -that earns great symphonies and operas the love of succeeding generations. But the commissars of Glavmus, looking west ward, can well ask where better symphonies and operas are being written today...
During the war, the itch spread throughout the Continent and erupted into an annoying problem for many British schools. UNRRA has reported that the epidemic has now become worldwide. Druggists in Washington, D.C. have noticed that more & more people come in to ask why they itch. A dermatologist on Manhattan's Park Avenue admits that cases have increased. No official statistics are available because the disease is not reported to health departments and most victims are reticent...