Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk-thumping session with Knox he bluntly declared the committee's figures were true, "and you know it. We will want to ask you some questions...
...could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given for us on Saturday from 1600 to 1800 by the men of the NSCS?" Gentlemen, we are happy to be your guests...
Because the planes could carry only a few thousand copies, we had to ask the soldiers to handle their copies with care and to pass them along. But from now on the troops in every platoon from Casablanca to the heights of Tunis will have a chance to get TIME almost as quickly as our subscribers here...
Contrary to legend, some Manhattan drama critics received it with considerable cordiality. The late Alexander Woollcott found merit in it. The late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...
Place and Heath have already started their work, and Place's appeal has already gone out. Their policy will be not to ask for very large donations from members of their class, but to see that the class gets the habit of contributing as soon as they leave College...