Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking into. First, it was a dark night, which makes torpedoing a very hard job, even assuming that by pure chance the vessel should have been discerned-she was showing no lights, I presume. More important, it was an exceedingly stormy night: high wind, mountainous waves, rain and spray. Ask a naval expert about this-he will probably tell you that effective submarine operations under such conditions are all but impossible. Secondly, two torpedoes were reported, which is strange, considering the relative unimportance of a passenger vessel...
...These same leaders who have failed to solve even our peacetime problems, who have a consistent record of promise followed by failure, now ask us to put ourselves in their hands again as they lead us steadily toward that climax of all political failure...
...like his mole life. He became a full-fledged gars du béton, a Concrete Guy. An old traveler in American upper berths, he could even show his men how to take their pants off in their hammocks, and when he awakened in the morning, Bentz would ask in sepulchral tones: "Dear brother, have you slept well...
...grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained he had talked things over with Grandfather Louis Hull, but not with Grandfather Louis' distinguished nephew, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "I didn't think it right to ask too much of Cousin Cordell, so I just signed up without . . . any help from the judge...
...Sometimes readers ask why TIME devotes so much space to the Orient. It is because TIME has always believed that the day would come when an understanding of that area with its billion people, half the population of the earth, might be of the utmost importance to America...