Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the week was out, the U.S. people were beginning to be heard. They had half expected that Harry Truman was going to ask for immediate mobilization. They were neither shocked nor surprised at his identification of Communist Russia as the enemy of their nation. His speech merely confirmed their views, although they still did not fully understand the crisis, which they thought should have been spelled out with more facts...
...thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving him a present-a shiny, new gold trumpet...
...December 18 he promised to ask workers to cut out unnecessary conversation and added, "I would like to suggest that early rising is not a great hardship, that the Freshman dining hall is open at 7:15 o'clock, that there is no waiting line at that time, and that good scholastic work cam be done before 9 o'clock in the morning...
...reward the babies for being good," said one official. "Some of them come in ask for lollipops before they've been coming here even a month...
...Escape. Crane's jobs included working briefly in a shipyard, on a newspaper, in a warehouse. In later years, he was a surprisingly able advertising copywriter, and seems to have enjoyed the work. He was paid only $25 or $35 a week, hesitated to ask for raises, and almost never got one. When he planned to run away from civilization to the family plantation on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies, he found that the plantation had been put up for sale...