Word: asking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must not, you cannot break up this conference and go home to start a civil war. ... I have insisted, I now do insist, that you bring this matter to a civilized conclusion, that you furnish . . . coal to America, somehow, soon. I ask, I insist on behalf of the American people and the American Government that you not break up this conference today...
Scores of German "journalists," far outnumbering those of any other nationality, live in Great Britain, but relatively few have ever been seen at a press conference or been known to ask for an interview. British newspapers have long buzzed with reports that there are 500 Nazi agents...
While the Crimson will emphasize consideration of the obstacles confronting the new Freshmen, this will be impossible without the sincere co-operation of the Class of 1942. to those of you who have either criticism or praise for the courses you have been taking, we ask responsible replies to the easily-answered queries on the blanks. Only in this way can the innumerable petty and some times gross misfires in the Freshman curriculum be called to the attention of next year's class. Only by your studied answers can we offer to the Class of '43 a heritage of counsel...
...anger he is cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
...Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...