Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps our leaders do not trust us plain people enough. Can it be we want to be more vigilant, more self-sacrificing, than they dare ask? Do they mistake groans and grumbles from a soft and noisy minority for a real revolt of the people against rationing and wartime controls? What do they fear? Tumbrils...
...would rather go a little shabby, a little less daintily fed, than divide the world into haves and havenots. We ask for hardness, if it means our children's peace...
...first the prophet was gratified at the stir he was causing. Twice the London Times telephoned him to ask if dissolution was still certain. From New Brunswick, Canada, one Ernest W. Cannon called up to protest over 4,000 miles of wire that his wife had read Long's prophecy and had refused to go on pickling cauliflower. "The Lord," said Long coldly, "cannot wait until worldly tasks like pickling are finished." When Cannon's wife got on the phone, the prophet said: "Pray at noon, 2 and 8 p.m., and ready yourself...
...Manhattan, weeping housewives called the Hayden Planetarium to ask if two planets were about to collide. Flib-bertygibbets in other U.S. cities got ready for the final bang...
...consult me, and that is most easily done by calling at the Lowell House secretary's office, AA entry, between 2:30 and 5 in the afternoon. In some cases where the situation is not obviously within the provisions of this new regulation, it may prove worth while to ask the board for consideration. Elliott Perkins, War Service Adviser...