Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at the Treasury's new forceps. The public, with only a few painful gulps, stood up to the frightful sight like a brave little man, but Congress fainted dead away. Later it opened one eye to ask for plenty of anesthetic during the operation...
...there was still one big indigestible truth which neither Mr. Morgenthau nor the Congressmen were ready to chew: the fact that the Government, while ready to ask citizens for sacrifices, was not yet ready to make any sacrifices of its own. The budget of many a department for 1942 had been ostentatiously pared -about as deeply as a man is apt to pare his fingernails. Although labor shortages have begun to appear in many an industry, the Administration had made no commitments to reduce relief expenditures, is still spending for relief at the rate of about...
...drinks, a few words, played a little poker. Friendly game and words grew even friendlier as the train approached the Capital. By the time the train rolled into Union Station, management and union were so close to agreement that they decided to call the Mediation Board and ask to be left alone a few hours. The Board said "Fine." By next morning, the disputants had found a formula for a settlement. The union bought the drinks. President MacFarlane chartered a bus for a joy ride around the city, blew them all to dinner before they entrained again for Minneapolis...
Beating around and through the bush of recent labor-management scuffles, critics had flushed out a scapenannygoat, the Labor Secretary. Congressmen bayed on her trail. Washington wags cracked: the only reason she still holds office is that the President is too much of a gentleman to ask a lady for her seat...
Klaw claimed that at most only 10 per cent of the United States trade is with foreign nations. Interventionists have to find catch slogans, Klaw said, because they can not ask people to "get out and fight for that 10 per cent...