Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Royal Highness, as a token of the admiration and friendship of the American people toward your country and her Navy, I ask you to receive this ship. . . . May this ship long keep the seas in the battle for liberty. May the day come when she will carry the Norwegian flag into a home port in a free Norway...
Perhaps people were finding out that there are not numbered freedoms but only freedom. Patrick Henry did not ask for Nos. 1 to 4, nor for Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 9. He simply used the singular when he said (1775): "As for me, give me liberty or give me death." No one has yet managed to vulgarize that phrase...
...Advertised Packard: "Ask the Man Who Wears...
...presidents or chairmen of the important organizations will be present, including the CRIMSON, Advocate and Lampoon, Brooks House, and most of the musical groups. After the meeting refreshments will be served, and there will be an opportunity to meet the officers and ask quesitons...
Sharing the male lead, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire both do polished, nonchalant, and routine jobs on parts that don't ask very much. Surprise star, blonde, pert Marjorie Reynolds, dances remarkably well, handles her role adequately, and looks like a dream. Of all the galaxy of stars which have been paraded out to fill Ginger Rogers' shoes as Astaire's dancing partner, she has the best chance of making the grade...