Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church of England recently exhibited in its shilly-shallying treatment of the question of the existence of demons. It is only to God's certified earthly representative and interpreter-the Holy Roman Catholic Church-that we can look for theological truth and progress. "If you want the dope, ask the Pope...
...Good Question. In 1956 Adams got White House Counsel Morgan to ask why Goldfine's real estate company, the East Boston Co., was under investigation by the Securities & Exchange Commission. The reply from SEC: for noncompliance with SEC regulations on publishing financial reports. Had Adams passed this along to Goldfine? asked Counsel Lishman. Adams' answer: not to his recollection...
...fifth course, and one that a modern Arab nation would probably take only to save itself from destruction: ask the U.S. and Britain to send in troops...
...soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida to ask if there might be some insanity in the family. Well, in a way, Mother reluctantly replied: there was Auntie Mary-the one the family never talked about. She was a medium...
...that baffled Tariff Lobbyist Oscar R. Strackbein, after betting a month before on a victory for the protectionists, glumly observed: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt." In the last days before the floor debate, Republicans trudged into Dick Simpson's office to ask him to release them from their promises to vote with him. A vote against reciprocal trade, one explained, would cost him White House support for a bill that he badly wanted for his district. Other helpful Administration tactics: weakening the tariff urge among Congressmen from oil and mining states...