Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankie, a man of delicate sensibilities, promptly resigned his vice chairmanship "to forestall any embarrassment on anybody's part." Said Costello plaintively: "I don't ask any favors from anybody. Anything I do comes from the heart, not the head...
...gloomily that Porter had written two flops (Seven Lively Arts and Around the World) and had not turned out a hit since Mexican Hayride. Socially, Cole Porter has always had more invitations than he could possibly accept. Professionally, he had become a wallflower, waiting around for a producer to ask him to do a show. When the right invitation finally came, it was from a pair of new producers, Arnold Saint Subber and Lemuel Ayers, who had to find financial backing the hard way. Porter did his work on Kiss Me, Kate in three months. Then, often impatient if always...
...tolerate in view of the exaltation accompanying conscious delivery." Some drugs were used, too. Only 35% had their babies without any anesthesia or painkilling drugs ; about half the rest had small doses of Demerol or whiffs of nitrous oxide (dentistry's "laughing gas"). The mothers were told to ask for drugs if they felt they needed them. Only 12% were not fully conscious...
...occupation. It is an outgrowth of the dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without faith in themselves, came timidly to the American authorities to ask advice. They got the minimum. "Form a liaison group," said SCAP's scientific division, "so we can talk intelligently...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...