Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more. Said he: "The people . . . have shown in a thousand ways that they are not in a mood for half measures, either financial or military. They will be critical only if the burdens are unfairly distributed. They will be disappointed in their leaders only if these leaders fail to ask them for all-out effort. ... I hope it cannot be said of the new tax bill that it was too little and too late...
Russia was the prime mover for agreement. Stalin had opened the discussions by asking Britain, as an earnest of permanent friendship, to promise that in the peace settlement Russia should recover the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as a part of Poland, to serve as protection against future German aggression. From the standpoint of Russia, that was perhaps no more unreasonable than for the U.S. to ask for the Japanese-mandated islands in the Pacific as protection against future Japanese assaults...
...Heinrich Himmler gets the credit for that," Heydrich said. "He's No. 2 Nazi now and head of all the German police. But I was the one who did it. I built up the spy system, even in the Army. And I've been the butcher boy. Ask the Poles about me, or the French saboteurs, or the Dutch and the Belgians and the Norwegians. We've shot or hanged more than 400,000, not counting all who die in tue concentration camps. There's a rhyme in Germany which goes: 'Himmler der Heuchler, Heydrich...
Deeply moved, Orson Welles revised his script, now dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...
Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...