Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full Shelves. The rest of the government's plan called for full shelves at full speed. Belgium used its dollar credits to buy food, clothing, alarm clocks and everything else consumers needed most-instead of spending it on heavy reconstruction. The common-sense reason: you could ask workers to work hard if they could buy something with their wages. Belgian workers, who had plenty to buy with their wages, did work hard. Belgian industries, which had reasonable profits to make, got down to the job as though their lives depended on it (as indeed they...
...shells, like a friendly phantom. He will also refrain from stage whispers with his colleagues. Indeed, the prevalence of inter-proctor communication has raised doubts that the College needs so many of these hirelings. But assuming that all proctors are necessary, it is hardly too much to ask that they be carefully instructed to act like guardian angels, instead of hotel detectives...
...know nearly nothing about the area behind the "iron curtain," I must suppose that this you know is wrong, because the Russians show to American and foreign reporters only a very little bit and those you know as "Potemkin village," the truth no one will know. You may ask, what is the only truth? This is not easy to say, but I will...
...pretty, 21-year-old bank worker named Martha Figueroa poured a little cold water on the lava. Said she: "Every time a girl wearing a rebozo comes into the bank, all the girls behind the counter say how beautiful she looks. But if I wore one the boss would ask me if I thought I was a turista, or was on holiday in Cuernavaca. And it is going to continue that way as long as people are afraid of what people will say and the stylish people think a rebozo is the badge of a housemaid...
With an estimated $20,000 beginning to roll in from Nature Boy, Eden is feeling quite a pull from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...