Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taste of our food, I suggest you ask one of the 26,170,283 guests who visited our stores during the past twelve months. Or better still, come in and have wheatcakes and coffee...
Shoppers were looking for bargains, whereas a year ago many did not even bother to ask the price. Tips were smaller and waitresses were being polite to customers again. Just as in the U.S., the bottom had dropped out of the "used (new) car" market...
Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
...ask ten Wisconsin students why they came to college, the odds are that nine of the centennial crop would reply, "To get a better job," or just "To get a job." When the G.I.s came back, the College of Engineering doubled in size. A new School of Commerce, set up in 1944, already has 1,235 students. Classes in philosophy are smaller than in 1940, though the university's enrollment has doubled in the same time...
...Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they could leave that afternoon...