Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs in the store windows of Brook, Ind. (pop. 888) said simply: "Gone to the Funeral." No one had to ask whose. Indiana was burying its great Hoosier humorist, George...
...Roosevelt seemed indeed to be spoiling for a fight. When Newscaster Earl ("Punkinhead") Godwin-who always sits beside the President's desk and is a press conference favorite-brought up the subject of the Montgomery Ward seizure (TIME, May 8), the President replied that he knew someone would ask that question, someone looking for trouble. Meekly, Earl Godwin demurred that he was not looking for anything of the kind. But the President was prepared: in his hands he held a brief, typewritten history of the Montgomery Ward battle...
...Stalin reads an illiterate document, Yakovlev reported, he growls and says: "Look what this illiterate man says. But if one tries to tell him about it, he will say he is illiterate because his parents were peasants or workers. That is no excuse. Our enemies do not wait to ask about our parents...
...American citizen I stood up as man to man and talked to Stalin. I told Stalin that the most important problem to solve is the religious problem. He said, 'How would you go about this? What would you do?' I told him I wanted to ask one, two or three questions...
...people of Santa Ana soon found that they could not ask Robertson and Canella to the same parties without awkwardness. So they took sides. So did the other officers-and the cadets, most of whom thought that Canella was a ''swell guy," that Robertson was too severe...