Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, although three weeks' notice of the date of election was given, no member of any final club called the Student Council to ask that the date be changed...
Leighton emphasized in his letter that "we do not wish, however, to ask the University for a second cooperative unless a substantial number of students now commuting indicate an interest in occupying it." On the other hand, he said yesterday that students now in the Houses may be allowed to apply "if there is insufficient interest in Dudley...
...with this year's income estimated at $68 billion, where would next year's $77 billion come from? The President was planning to ask Congress to boost the federal gasoline tax and up the postage on first-class letters from 4? to 5?, but for most of the added $9 billion, he was counting on the surging economy to increase the income-tax take...
...insurrection that led to De Gaulle's return to power, plumped himself down in the seat opposite the general. Hastily, De Gaulle summoned his trusted military aide Colonel Gaston de Bonneval for a whispered conversation. When De Bonneval defensively?and audibly?remarked, "But, mon general, I didn't ask him to sit there," Delbecque ignominiously retreated...
...goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling comic horror. It may not be literature, but it is a fairly painless...