Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire's Styles Bridges, got an afternoon appointment with President Eisenhower, returned secretly for breakfast a couple of mornings later, and from the White House steps declared: "I think we are willing to give them a damned fair proposition. I don't think they can rightly ask for more than that." Bridges' proposition: the Ikemen would get the assistant minority leader's post, plus the meaningless chairmanship of the Senate Republicans' Committee on Committees...
...such a man must ask, as our time does ask, Job's repeated question. Job wants justice of the universe. He needs to know the reason for his wretchedness. And it is in those repeated cries of his that we hear most clearly our own voices...
...bridge (½? to 1? a point when serious), tennis (fairly good), and golf (mid-nineties), likes to dance, prefers vintage French wine, is an inveterate pipe smoker (75 pipes and Brooks Bros. mixture 346). He is wealthy enough in his own right so that two years ago he could ask Safeway to put a $135,000 limit on his salary (since "that is all anyone is worth") by cutting out his 1% take of the company's profits (otherwise, his salary last year would have been...
...seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work right and that classes do not become disorderly. Students with questions to ask may make appointments with instructors...
Somehow, some way, I managed to ask...