Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point, when Senator McCarthy asked him if Fixer John Maragon had ever given him campaign contributions from Racket King Frankie Costello, Vaughan did a double take, which would have been a credit to Comedian Oliver Hardy. "Am I supposed to. know Frankie Costello?" he asked. "I have heard of people named Costello . . . May I ask, who is 'Frank Costello...
...nearly eight months, and by Congress' own rules the Senators and Representatives were supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The House was in a mood to go home. In fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began...
Until Cripps and Bevin arrived, Washington could not be sure of the British position. But it was known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape...
Among the many American bourgeois institutions which the Russians have adapted to their own devices is the quiz program. The Russian version, however, would scarcely get a respectable Hooperating: listeners merely send in questions which omniscient Radio Moscow answers. When a "Soviet citizeness" wrote in recently to ask for a definition of the term "people's democracy," Radio Moscow replied that a people's democracy was a country of a new type, struggling ever onward, ever upward on the road to socialism...
...Membership in the Sacred College of Cardinals had fallen to 14, and all the Roman Catholic world momentarily expected Pope Julius III to call a consistory to replenish the College. When the cardinals and papal courtiers had decided that the time was at hand, a messenger was sent to ask His Holiness the customary question: "Beatissime pater, eras erit consistorium?" (Most blessed father, will there be a consistory tomorrow?) But the Pope, who had built his summer villa in the cool valley that is still called "the vineyard of Pope Julius," answered: "Cras erit vinea" (Tomorrow it will...