Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentlemen, I ask you to please realize how completely our American Communists have been wasting their time. Not long ago an American research institution asked a large number of people all over the United States: 'To what social class do you think you belong?' Most organized wage earners replied that in their opinion they belong to the middle class. . . .How can the American Communists make a proletarian revolution among workers who do not even know they are proletarians...
King George VI, broadcasting to the people of his empire and commonwealth, spoke a measured, modest plea: "I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer and dedication. We are not unmindful of our own shortcomings. We shall ask not that God may do our will but that we may do the will of God, and we dare to believe that God has used our nation and empire as an instrument for fulfilling His highest purpose...
...wrote in a maternal hurry and let her mistakes go uncorrected. Thus when she meant to write, "Kiss Susy [Twain's daughter] for me," it came out "Kill Susy for me." To which Twain replied: "I said to Livy [his wife], 'It is a hard thing to ask of loving parents, but Ma is getting old and her slightest whim must be our law'; so I called in Downey, and Livy and I held the child with the tears streaming down our faces while he sawed her head...
...Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels invited German mobs to lynch downed Allied airmen. "It is too much to ask of us that we call out German soldiers to protect murderers of children from the righteous anger of their parents...
...ask the court to be lenient with him." Less inclined to leniency, Judge Lester W. Patterson reduced the charge to simple assault, last week sentenced Parolee Peluso to the city penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years...