Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington politicos began to ask: "What is Harold up to?" They got a partial answer. Stories began to leak out of Washington of a midnight meeting between Stassen and Taft. Before Stassen had made up his mind to enter the Ohio primary, Taft had paid a call at Stassen's Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront...
...Redly Great?" When Mahatma Gandhi was in London in 1931 to plead for Indian independence, a small girl started to ask for his autograph. Then she drew back shyly before the strange little dhoti-clad man with a cavernous mouth, jutting ears and scrawny neck. She looked up at her mother and asked: "Mummy, is he really great...
Whitney: "In the pink. I don't need to ask how you are-you're looking great...
Labor M.P. Emrys Hughes, having heard certain disquieting rumors, had a question to ask of His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons last week. Was it true, he wanted to know, that shortly before New Year's Eve, 1947, two crates containing 24 bottles of whiskey had been flown from Scotland to ailing, vacationing Winston Churchill in North Africa...
...special interests of a small class. In relation to the Harvard community, the CRIMSON is in a much happier position. It is not subject to directives from above, and it has no special interests to serve. Let the editors on this Seventy-fifth Anniversary look into their consciences and ask themselves if they are really making the most of their opportunities. They may never again have so good a chance to learn (and teach) what an honest and fearless press...