Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then I noticed what appeared to be red flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...
...fair game. In short, the President, while seeming to reject "politics as usual" during wartime, actually was getting ready to espouse it with hearty indirectness. The example of Woodrow Wilson in 1918 was strong in the memories of all. That War President had been politically inept enough to ask directly for the election of a Democratic Congress-and had taken a shellacking that lost him the House, the Senate and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-where the fate of his League of Nations later rested...
...public policy" to pay it, since a man who knows that his kin are cared for may be more likely to commit a crime. Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, in U.S. District Court last week, finding no precedent for the case, thought otherwise. Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal...
...board rate. The Dining Halls administration and the University authorities will say that such a policy would necessitate a greater increase than some students are able to afford. Yet they never bothered to show us in actual dollars and cents what such a plan would cost. We do not ask any unreasonable arrangement. If an increase in board rate alone would not cover the deficit, the student body would be willing to cut down on some of its table luxuries. But when the prices charged for extras and substitutions are so high that they make prohibitive even the purchase...
...modern missionaries." For example, he has toured Latin America five times in the last two years. Though given to car, air-and seasickness, he has traveled more than 2,000,000 miles by train, plane and ship. "Sometimes when I wake in the morning," he says, "I have to ask my secretary what country...