Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Example: The Corporation would open up a $300,000,000 credit for Brazil. Brazil would have to use that credit for purchases in the U. S. or ask the Corporation to buy abroad for her. Then the Corporation would take over all Brazil's exportable surpluses: coffee, cotton...
...sent a message to the enemy yesterday to ask him if he would meet with me, as between one soldier and another after the fight, and honorably to seek a way to put an end to hostilities...
...tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...
After this reprieve at dawn, the submarine dived, vanished. The Washington, without waiting to ask questions, steamed ahead, lifeboats still hanging on her stout sides. Not until the ship was well away from the scene did Captain Manning slow down to empty the boats. After all were brought back aboard, the Washington sighted another submarine. Taking no chances on his blinker this time, anxious Captain Manning worked an old sea trick by turning tail on the sub at such an angle that the Washington sailed toward the sun and its rays blinded the possible pursuer, which soon disappeared...
...ASK ME TOMORROW-James Gould Cozzens-Harcourf, Brace...