Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's proceedings were concerned, John McClellan announced that he would ask the Department of Justice to examine Hoffa's testimony for evidence of perjury. Courts have ruled that a sense of credibility must apply to "I do not recall," i.e., a major event in a man's life is not an incident lightly forgotten. Such an event might concern, say, the details of a $20,000 loan or the bugging of a grand jury room. Jimmy Hoffa's forgettery might turn out to be inconvenient after...
...could not pass, the U.S. abstained. Officially, the U.S. pleaded the need of more information, but actually the State Department straddled in the hope of not antagonizing either of two friends, Britain or Saudi Arabia. Beforehand, the State Department had been sufficiently disturbed by Caccia's warnings to ask its own London embassy to predict whether, as Caccia implied, there would be an anguished British outcry against the U.S. for abstaining. The U.S. embassy estimate was that there would not be, and it proved to be right...
...little after midnight on the 24th of August, 1572 began the famed massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, in which some 2,000 Huguenots were killed by the mob in Paris alone. Last week, in hundreds of Roman Catholic churches throughout France, special Masses were said to ask forgiveness for this crime against fellow Christians, and many Protestant ministers also took note of the occasion to ask their congregations to forgive and forget...
...current issue of the Christian Century the Rev. Charles Granville Hamilton of Booneville Episcopal Mission in Mississippi urges Protestants to commemorate St. Bartholomew's Day with penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists...
...week the school was carrying out the doctor's recommendations by tearing down part of the big wall and giving the girls a little more freedom and fun. But just in case medical science failed, it also took the precaution of proclaiming 30 straight days of prayer to ask protection against those frightful whatever-they-were who may or may not have lived in that rubber tree...