Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of faithfulness to our country, punish them severely. But don't touch one of them just because he has Japanese blood. They are American citizens. We are fighting for all American citizens, and when we die for them we don't stop to ask what kind of blood they have. We are fighting for the sacred rights of man; we don't want them toyed with behind our backs...
...parley took place. Under Britain's system of Government responsibility to Parliament, Winston Churchill could do one of four things: 1) call for a vote of Parliamentary confidence; 2) fire Minister Butler; 3) resign himself; 4) get the King's permission to "go to the country," i.e., ask Britons to decide the issue at a general election...
What I recall particularly is that Freyberg rose, after the names of the dav's felons had been announced, to ask that The Boss stay his hand and that the boys, who would otherwise have been soundly beaten in the corridor ... be granted a full pardon. Seeing that he had scored his point, he went full out and asked that the whole college be excused from classes for the rest of the day. It was a lead-pipe tactic. The Boss groaned once in his beard and surrendered...
...Senators listened intently from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. At the end each one stepped forward to shake Administrator Bowie's hand, congratulate him on a superb performance, ask him to put his charts in booklet form. This once, at least, bureaucracy had looked good to a group of U.S. Congressmen...
...longer could the War Department keep its secret from the public. At first War Secretary Stimson gruffly refused to comment. ("I can't ask for a report on what every soldier says when he comes back. ) But before the day ended the old Secretary's bluff was called and the Army and Navy jointly acknowledged that Sergeant Foisie was more than right. On the night of July 10-11 U.S. airborne troops had "received antiaircraft fire from enemy ground forces and from friendly naval and ground forces with losses of 23 aircraft [C-47s] and 410 personnel...