Word: asked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst forms of pressure came from the hostages' complete dependence on their captors. They had to ask permission to perform the simplest activities, from drinking a glass of water to even going to sleep. Said Air Force Captain Neal ("Terry") Robinson, 27, an administrator in the embassy's budget section: "They were our fathers and mothers...
...ask for everything." For the physically active Americans, being forced to sit in chairs for up to 16 hours a day was almost torture. Only after Marine Security Guard Kevin Hermening had fallen sick and pleaded with the guards for fresh air were the hostages given two 10-min. periods a day outside the buildings...
...farewell statement to the nation, Trudeau declared: "Wherever I am or whatever I do, I will continue to work and fight for our country." That referred to his bitter opposition to the long postponed referendum in which Quebec's Separatist Premier René Lévesque will ask for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined "sovereignty-association" for his province with the rest of Canada...
...students' occasional news conferences were studies in frustration. At one, a droning student leader was interrupted by a French television reporter: "If you don't allow us to ask some questions, we'll leave." When many newsmen got up to go, the students loosened the format...
...then an unknown, was doing three of Schisgal's one-act plays in Stockbridge, Mass. The author liked to take early-morning walks, and every day when he left his hotel, Hoffman would be waiting for him. "He'd have the script and a million questions to ask: 'What's your thought here? What's your thought there?' I had never worked with an actor like that. He is eternally dissatisfied with what he has achieved. Right now he isn't negative about Kramer. But I have no doubt that in six months...