Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel formula might continue to stand as a façade of Administration anti-inflation policy, but the real working mechanism would be the Illinois formula, which puts more money in the pockets of the workers without raising their hourly rate. (Already, in Chicago, packinghouse workers are preparing to ask slaughterhouse portal-to-portal pay, for time spent putting on work clothes and sharpening knives in the morning; for time spent washing off blood in company showers in the evening.) Success of the Illinois formula would take Lewis a long way in his comeback, a long way toward becoming again...
...mobile command post, worked quickly along the top of the ridge away from the road. Forward of him the battle raged. Back of him his own soldiers swarmed, as yet with no destination. Here was excitement, uncertainty, no use for last night's plans, no time to ask for instructions. The battalion commander...
...many of the U.S. troops who barged into Sicily could speak Italian. For the benefit of those who could not, the Army was ready with a neat paper handbook and guide to the language, not designed to offer a complete course in Italian, but to enable any soldier to ask ordinary questions, order a meal (and pay for it), read street and highway signs, ask directions...
...studied in conjunction with language records; otherwise the troops must rely for pronunciation on the English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting it in just fast enough to keep it from stalling. Afterward he said: "We all walked away, all that could walk after that flak. I guess that's all we could ask...