Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
Said Farmer Rhinehart: "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. I hope this is just the beginning. Room here for lots more Poles, Jews and whatever kind of farmers they got left...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...Manhattan office under his certificate from the International Game Fish Association (he holds the world's record for catching the heaviest bone fish on a three-thread line), he began to worry about his 1,800 employees. Would any of their kids get to college? Arnstein decided to ask three friends (including Journalist Quentin Reynolds) which children of Arnstein employees best deserved a college education each year...
Most colleges piously deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...