Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cope left their wagon purple and gold stripped black tied men took over the vehicle. When the law returned, the occupants left ... as well as the keys. The bull's only reply to the question of what happened to the keys was ask those thieves" as he pointed to the gangling Poonsters...
...heard what the Smith boys of Company C did to their "dear" name. sake, Hollister Smith, on the latter's wedding night several weeks ago.. The boys were so solicitous of Hollister's welfare that they called him long distance--Cambridge to New York City--just to ask him how he was. He mumbled an "all right" from his hotel room in New York and hung up. It is even rumored that the charges were reversed...
...outpost on Woodie Island of the Gilbert Group as BuPers sought to satiate his life-long ambition of seeing the strange Raffiesia, the largest flower known, extending one meter in diameter. Don will be in a botanical paradise, 1500 miles from no where--what more can a man ask for these days...
...dressed Thomas Sovereign Gates, 16th President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time...
...months ago 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, escaped from a Canadian prison camp, got in touch with Stephan, who gave him money and two days' food and lodging. Recaptured in San Antonio, Krug blandly served as star witness against Kamerad Stephan. The District Attorney did not ask the death penalty. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, however, ruled stiffly that would-be traitors needed a lesson, sentenced Stephan to hang. Three times the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case...