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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mothers with crying children should be treated with the utmost courtesy and care . . . Say: 'I am very sorry, Ma'am, but I must ask you to take the little one to the rest room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way, Please | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Detectives, sheriffs and special investigators swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...there is one fundamental division which splits Fontainebleau. That is the question of where Western Europe is to be defended. The difference arises from the fact that the British ask not only "where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: On a Tightrope | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth at least $35,000 a share) of the McCormick-Patterson trust stock. Times-Herald staffers wondered whether there would be any personnel changes. Said Editor Waldrop: 'You'll have to ask the colonel. He's the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outpost | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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