Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was the undeniable fact that General McNaughton was run down and tired. The people wondered when & how all the hubbub and hostility would end. Not many really thought the bruised and battered Defense Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...
...Intellectual Way? Camp Director Norman V. Nelson, who described them as "intellectuals," said sadly that there was nothing he could do. Revolters gloried in their nom de guerre: the "Tobacco Road Gang." They feigned sickness, passively resisted all orders. Told to cut down a tree, a Tobacco Roader would ask, "How do I do it?" Told to take hold of the ax, he would ask, "What do I do next?" Told to swing the ax, he would swing, cut out a small chip, inquire. "Now what...
...There is a temptation to imagine the Red Army will be inside the German capital in a matter of days. . . . It is a temptation that should be resisted. . . . We should ask ourselves whether it is a very attractive military proposition for an army to thrust forward in a narrow spear across a wide, defended river line and make a frontal attack on one of the greatest single built-up areas in the world. Unless the Germans are really on their last legs, it would seem to be asking for trouble to do that, and I don't believe...
Dean Burwell's report indicated a divergence from traditional practice stating that "the Medical School will not ask individuals to apply for these fellowships, but will itself take the responsibility of seeking men out and attempting to recruit them for academic medicine...
...yearning 'Cliffedwellers want all the nice servicemen at Harvard, regardless of the cut of their blues or O.D.'s, to come out to Agassiz Hall (ask any bespectacled, book-toting skirt for the direction) on Friday nights, beginning March 9, from 1930 to 2145, for ping-pong, darts, and dancing...