Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. farmer is sore about his subsidy programs. But if there is anything nobody knows, it is what to do about it. On Capitol Hill, the working political assumption is that the farmer wants handouts, handouts and more handouts. Yet anyone who takes the trouble to ask the farmer himself is likely to get some startlingly different answers. Last week the big (circ. 3,100,000) Farm Journal announced the most remarkable results yet of a farm poll. The Journal asked its subscribers to vote on whether they wanted 1) more support, 2) less support...
...Gustavo Adolfo de Maldonado Medina, as a Bolivian and representing the soul of my people, ask satisfaction on the field of honor from the man responsible for your article [March 2], and name, as the situation demands, my seconds, who shall be Fernando San Martin and Colonel Gustavo Maldonado San Martin...
...Thurber's tale, the wolves finally tied up all the rabbits in a cave. The other animals noticed they were missing and began to ask questions. The wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten, and since they had been eaten it was a purely internal matter. "They were escapists," said the wolves, "and, as you know, this is no world for escapists...
...elders, respecting his age, opposed the use of force. Finally, someone remembered that the only one with influence over the old man was his son. They went to see the son, and he suggested that he would use the village's telephone system and ask to speak to the old man. It worked. Lobster-red after his long soaking in the hot water, the old man got out. His son convinced him over the phone that he was interfering with an honorable village project, and he relented and disappeared. The villagers found another family, and Launois got his pictures...
...customary soft collar and black velvet neckpiece, he mused: "When I was a very young boy, I prayed to God, 'I am a very bad sinner, and I don't deserve any glory-I don't want to go to heaven. The only thing I ask: Please leave me here.' And now I want to stay here 50 years more...