Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning the Fleet spotted a Japanese reconnaissance plane, which had unquestionably spotted the Fleet. Admiral Phillips paid his respect to this fact by altering his course. But he decided not to ask the R.A.F. for an air screen because he considered it more important to keep wireless silence...
...When asked about selling "stimulants" to college members under 21, the manager of one store said. "Theoretically minors don't got the stuff, but a few slip under the wire because we can't ask them all their ages as soon as they walk in the door. We could get in big trouble if some boy got in a jam sometime, and it came out we had sold him liquor, even if we never knew...
...some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill U.S. men-create anything resembling the panic created three years ago by Orson Welles...
...would like to ask for unconditional confidence in our leadership, but it is not possible. The facts are against them. When we glance at the newspapers we are often overcome with the number of deaths registered once more in our families. We are about to enter the third winter of the war, and we all have the feeling that our people are not sufficiently united to fulfill the tasks that bind...
...part this inadequacy was due to the vertigo natural to the human brain in earthquakes. In part it was due to the fact that it was impossible to give all the answers when some of the basic questions were still to be asked. The chief value that remained to be appraised in the light of the changed world was the human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps...