Word: asks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts that are raised by the issue of pertinency and the right and power of the committee to ask and require answers to the questions...
...standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea to help get an additional ten million viewers in the South: Ask the questions they ask Negroes in Mississippi to qualify them as voters. They're interesting questions, like, How many bubbles in a pound of soap...
...scholarly investigators, we must posit a few questions. In California, the phone booth had been tipped over to a horizontal position. Was it still, then, really a phone booth? In Oklahoma, the phone itself had been removed. Thus we must ask: is a phone booth without a phone a true phone booth? (This recalls the famous query: does the sound of a waterfall exist if no one is there to hear it?) Then there is the matter of the booth's dimensions, variously reported as 3 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet and as 32 inches by 32 inches...
...carefree Russians churning up the Volga in a motor launch, of the "volunteers" who whistle while they work to make Siberia a mountain greenery home. In the Caucasus, bikini-clad beauties splash in the Black Sea. It is enough to make the St. Petersburg, Fla. Chamber of Commerce ask Washington for equal time...
...Ask Any Girl. Shirley MacLaine, a great comedienne, uses all her charm to resist the advertising lures of Madison Avenue laps...