Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American soldier has been handsomely gypped by almost every shopkeeper, bartender and shady lady in Europe, for the simple reason that he's asked for it! He'll pay a thousand francs for a bottle of third-rate cognac, if there's none to be "liberated." Then he'll get squiffed to the ears and bed himself down with a fire-sale harlot for another thousand francs, if she's pretty enough and smart enough to ask...
Subscribers often ask us how our research girls run down all the extra facts you find in TIME stories, and the answer isn't a simple one. For example, the researcher can sometimes fill the gaps in Draft One of a story by digging through some of the 23,000 books in our library or some of the 400,000 folders in our "morgue." Sometimes it takes a telephone call to some top authority to turn the trick. But far more often the answer requires a wired or cabled query to one of our U.S. or overseas correspondents...
Before Oppenheimer went to Washington from New Mexico to testify, a newspaperman asked him whether the atomic bomb had any significant limitations. Said he: "The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving end. If you ask, 'Can we make them more terrible?' the answer is yes. If you ask: 'Can we make a lot of them?' the answer is yes. If you ask: 'Can we make them terribly more terrible?' the answer is probably...
...baiter Julius Streicher: "Is this list [of approved attorneys] for somebody who is antiSemitic? I could not ask a Jew to defend...
...feeble old character on ITMA answers any question with the line: "I'll have to ask me Dad," which is now a stock retort of anyone evading a question...