Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended his speech by asserting that Truman was trying his best "to do what he thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt is calling to him from heaven to perform . . . His heart is just as sincere, his purposes are fought for just as "courageously, his stand is for the right. .. Can we ask for more than this in a leadership?" The strongly pro-Eisenhower crowd, clanking silverware on the wineglasses, roared back...
...decided that the Taft-Hartley law was within the Constitution in requiring that, before a union can take a case to the National Labor Relations Board, its officers must swear that they are not Communists. The majority held that Congress has the right to prescribe qualifications for those who ask the "privilege" of acting for workers as their exclusive bargaining agents. For good and obvious reasons, said the court, Congress had decided that Communists do not qualify...
...surest way for a U.S. visitor in Canada to start an argument is to ask a Canadian: "Why don't you come into a customs union with us?" A customs union, or some kind of economic union between the two countries, has been mooted off & on for 99 years.* Now ERP and Canada's increasingly close economic ties with the U.S. have made it a very live issue...
...after Papa had lost his considerable cotton fortune in Savannah, he took a job as manager of a cotton agency in Le Havre. Mamma did wonders with his small pay and her almost total lack of French. The children born in France had to ask others what Mamma said when she scolded them in English, though both parents tried to "prevent us from becoming expatriate mongrels." As the years passed, easygoing Papa became fairly well off and brought his family to a comfortable home in Paris. But it was Mamma, tiny and handsome, who staved off the early crises...
...medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than to ask for benzedrino...