Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glancy, an ex-Du Pont Republican with patriotic urge to lick his terrific job, has an act for people who ask: "How are we doing?" In the top right-hand drawer of his desk is a tight roll of paper six inches wide. To explain this gadget he huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail...
...more pleasant duties, Timilty revealed that "censorship is the one job I like very much." When he admitted that he found it necessary to ask Sally Rand "to put a little more on" recently, his audience showed signs of distinct disapproval. "You're hissing me only because I got there first,' was the Commissioner's retort...
...sure you don't like me any more -and I don't blame you. But I am equally sure that you know in your heart . . . that in whatever you might ask me to do, I would serve you faithfully and loyally...
Confident of success, Candidate Smith said: "For many years I've worked to cure. I now come before the people to ask them to kill, so that the war shall end, and end quickly...
...tram traveling 80 miles an hour overtakes another train traveling 60 miles an hour on the same track, is that, I ask you, any kind of a way to run a railroad...