Word: asks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to my office or ask me about these on the floor. I went to her office and discussed the nomination with her. I judged from the questions she asked that there were a number of points which she would carefully examine, and knowing what I felt the answers to those points would be, I concluded that her conscience might lead her to cast a vote against Admiral Strauss...
...suggest that U.S. railroaders ask the operators of Japan's National Railways the secret to successful management...
...Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...
...argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free economy with higher living standards but lacking some state social security benefits. The difference is that the Saar is merely exchanging French rule for German rule, whereas East Germans would...
...overtones of their science. They hope that knowledge of the oceans will lead to knowledge of the earth, then of the solar system and the Milky Way galaxy. It may help answer such questions as: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? "Adolescents ask these questions," says Revelle, "but grown men do not. It is not because they are unimportant questions, but because grown men have given up." The oceanographers have not given...