Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Farmer Rhinehart of D.P. Zielezinski: "Right away he puts his hands like he was giving them to me for a present-like to ask me where he should start working. We can't speak a word to each other but we sure piled up a heap of understanding...
...civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention to give consideration...
...government prepared a speedy trial for Assassin Pallante, jailed in Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
...Bunch of Martyrs. Despite the loud objections, Congressmen have for some time maintained their right to ask the "$64 question." Some of the unionists answered it. Samuel Wolchok, president of the union, said that he was not a Communist. So did his right-hand man, Jack Altman, onetime Socialist. Both of them thought the question was improper, however. They thought that jailing the nine would only make "a bunch of martyrs" out of them...
...cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown of flowers as he walked; he wanted to thank the Virgin because his store had made so much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful...