Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year was even better-and this year promised to be paradise. But OPA, which reckons paradise in terms of consumers, stepped in with a price ceiling that throttled Wenatchee's boom. Last week the growers had to sell their apples at $2.53 a 44-lb. box, could ask no premium for fancy quality and fancy wrappings. The growers, who always regarded apples as a gamble for high stakes, were in the sad fix of a man watching a casino raided just when the dice were getting...
Into Manhattan's big, plushy Yale Club last week went the New York Daily News's Inquiring Fotographer Jimmy Jemail (TIME, July 21, 1941) to ask a strange question: what would you think of a swap of Churchill for Roosevelt...
...serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when he knows women are out there. The only solution is for these officers to ask their wives, in a spirit of cooperation, to wait elsewhere or wear black woolen stockings...
...idealism-of Fascist totalitarianism v. the democratic way of life-but as a war of great interests. They see it in terms of Great Britain defending her empire against the challenge of a new German imperialism, of the U.S. seeking to throttle an expanding Japan. Argentines ask why should they go to war to protect England's empire. Altogether, our attitude is very much like that of the U.S. before Pearl Harbor...
...minutes. He literally shouts into the microphone at a machine-gun pace. Radio engineers have tried all sorts of tricks to modulate the tone. Once or twice they persuaded him to slow down, but it took the punch out of what he said, people wrote in to ask if he was sick and fan mail dropped off 1,000 letters a day. Now Dr. Maier just shouts and lets the engineers worry about...