Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams, ex-head of the National Youth Administration. After a three weeks' examination of his qualifications for the office of Rural Electrification Administrator, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12-to-8 last week to reject him. The Senate was in a mood to do the same. Urged to ask Franklin Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination before it came to a vote, Williams stuck out his chin and retorted, "Hell...
Life was all any young unmarried woman could ask for. Occasionally she visited her sisters and delighted her nieces with her brisk wit. They always looked forward to being with "Aunt Milly." Wellesley students called her "Milly Mac," but not to her face...
...19th Parliament, said the Prime Minister, would meet just once more, on Monday, March 19, in a special short session. The chief purpose: to vote money with which to run the country and the war after March 31, when present appropriations run out. Not much money would be asked for. Said the Prime Minister: "It is [my] intention to ask for appropriations only . . . from the beginning of the new fiscal year through a general election." For the full fiscal year, the next Parliament would have to vote the necessary appropriations...
...tall, chin-chopper boss, Chester Bliss Bowles, walked up Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to extend OPA for another 18 months. As usual, Adman Bowles was armed with a great sheaf of adman's charts-150 of them-to show what OPA had been doing. As usual, he was urbane, softspoken, deferential. Only one note was missing in the interview. The rabbit-punching truculence with which Congressional committees have usually greeted OPAsters in the past was gone. This time the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee was on Chester Bowles's side from the beginning...
Bogart and Becall are a team destined for a "two-hour wait for seats, please." When Lauren oozes out "I'm hard to get, Steve--all you have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...