Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of Hiss. "You are all individual jurors," Murphy said pointedly. "The foreman . . . has no authority other than to announce the verdict." Murphy talked directly to James: "Assuming that you told your wife, Mr. Foreman, or anyone else, that you thought so-and-so was lying, today I ask you as a representative of the U.S. Government to come back and put the lie in that man's face." Murphy was pointing to Hiss. James turned beet...
...near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble is rewarded by orders for about 35 corridas (six bulls, with two held in reserve) a season. It charges as much as 40,000 pesos ($4,624) a corrida, a price that few other ranches could ask...
...blast was La Prensa's sympathetic coverage of charges made in the Chamber of Deputies three weeks ago against IAPI, the official state trading agency. A hard-hitting anti-Perón deputy named Agustin Rodriguez Araya had introduced into the record 40 questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper [Se-ñora Perón's Democracia...
When a layman drops in at the Harvard College Observatory and wants to know about the equipment, he is usually told: "Ask Mr. Campbell." In his 50 years at the observatory, white-thatched Leon Campbell has made his reputation largely through his work with interested amateurs. In fact, he himself got into astronomy by being an interested amateur...
...hunch was that Mexican oil reserves would be needed by the U.S. in case of another war. But most U.S. companies have refused to go back under the poor terms offered by Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Hat in hand, Bermúdez has had to ask the U.S. to put up $200 million for an oil development loan...