Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt. Undeterred, the President picked it up and ran-ran hard. There are immense difficulties in getting planes and supplies to China, he said, but the U.S. is working hard to get them there. If he were a member of the Chinese Government, the President added, he would certainly ask: But when and why not a little more? As a member of the American Government he would have to reply: As fast as the Lord will let us. The President settled contentedly back in his chair...
...question subscribers often ask is why TIME'S covers always show people. The answer, of course, is that TIME tells the news that way: in terms of the men and women who are making the news. And so we have been putting the man (or woman) of the week on the cover ever since TIME began. There have been just six exceptions in 1,044 issues-once for the U.S. flag, twice for a Derby race horse, once for a baby basset hound, once for a prize pointer, once for a sea lion...
...Buenos Aires you can pick up a telephone any day in the week between 10 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon and ask for Berlin. The long-distance operator will say: "You will get it right away." Or you can go downtown to the stone-fronted office of Italian Cables to send a message to Germany, Italy or Japan. Argentina has restricted the embassies of all warring nations to 100 code words per day, but there are no restrictions on plain-language communications with any country in the world, Axis or otherwise...
...were absent when the gang came up. . . ." They booed the U.S., threw stones at the Ambassador and at the U.S. emblem over the Embassy doorway. At a dinner that night, Weddell agreed with other Americans in Madrid that he had no choice but to demand an apology and to ask for his recall if it was not forthcoming. When Weddell was able to see Franco a week later, his instructions from the State Department in Washington were, not to ask for an apology, but to offer Franco a $100,000,000 credit...
...Kurd's hell was his confusion of conscience and cowardice. He was too cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with his desire for divorce; too cowardly to break the news, when Barbara did divorce him, to their daughter; too cowardly, finally, to marry Constance when that became possible. In his misery he found a return to the womb-a girl named Briggsy...