Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in "Bloody Breathitt" (pronounced breath-it) County, Ky., homicide has a purely clinical interest. They ask: How big was the gun? How big a hole was blowed in him? There is also a certain social distinction ("There goes the man who killed Little Jack Combs. He did it with a big, shiny .44. It made a big, round hole in Little Jack's belly. And Little Jack laid there on the ground, talkin' before he died...
...Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affaíres around to ask Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov about a not only objectionable but very queer telegram handed in at Paris for transmission to Moscow...
Benito Mussolini's extraordinary talent for mystification served him well in building up this question. "The Italian people." he said recently, "have realized that the pilot must not be disturbed, especially when he is engaged in stormy navigation. nor must he be asked questions about the course." Because he determined to explain nothing, to make no commitments, everyone wanted to ask questions of the laconic pilot whose course was puzzlingly zigzag-now pointing for one belligerent shore, now toward the other, back & forth...
...their wives and children. This year their waves have had a better time in Cambridge, partly because their husbands don't attend as many bachelor dinners as when Archie MacLeish was curator, partly because professors' wives have caught on to the fact that Niemanites are married, now ask fellows' wives to dinner...
Although the students will have no specific duties on board, they will be allowed to ask any questions that occur to them. There is little danger that Uncle Sam's carefully guarded naval secrets will be exposed, however, for "only a trained technician can understand a machine, even when it is exposed," according to the office of information...