Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dumbarton Oaks is not perishing today on account of [its] weaknesses. Conceivably, they could be corrected. . . . Dumbarton Oaks is a ghost-project today because the common sense of the common people has asserted itself to ask one question: What kind of peace is this Dumbarton Oaks charter asking us to guarantee? Until that question can be answered in a way to satisfy the moral demands of the American people, any effort to make them rise to enthusiastic support of Dumbarton Oaks is just so much time wasted. . . . Win a decent peace, a reconciling peace, and a true 'general international...
...biggest body of opinion in the U.S. last week gave the No. 1 plank in President Roosevelt's foreign policy all the support that he could ask or want. In Cleveland, at a conference sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, leaders of some 25,000,000 U.S. Protestants voted unanimous, unconditional approval of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security...
...England to Germany in 1938 to look for the mother of a distraught Jewish refugee boy. He finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When he takes his little problem to the police, he is arrested under suspicion of involvement in the assassination of a Nazi official...
...ask nothing in return except that consideration and respect which are our due, and if that is denied us, we would still have good conscience. Let none, therefore, in our country and Commonwealth or in the outside world misname or traduce our motives...
Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...