Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been "incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from them, with one major exception: the number of bombs in the stockpile, withheld at the committee's own jittery request. Last session, AEC had sent the committee 100 letters and met with it 25 times. There were almost daily discussions between staffs of the committee and the AEC. "[But] the real issue," he summed up, "is how we are going to answer these charges that shake the confidence...
...stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request for a visa last year...
...official radio network is state-owned and noncommercial) are nourishing because of a genial conspiracy between the broadcasters and listeners. Handwritten program listings are passed around in country inns, whipped out of sight whenever a stranger appears. For a five-franc (11?) charge, the innkeeper will forward a record request accompanied by a romantic or spiteful message...
...Council's request for 20 percent of each contribution is for administrative expenses and non-charity committee work. It will be made clear that the student does not have to give this if he doesn't want to. The figure is reduced from this year's 30 percent, which included several charities...
...walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared at the polls found typewritten notes under their doors: "Dear voting citizen: We have established that you have not voted by 2 p.m. We request you to carry out your patriotic duty by 8 p.m. Sincerely, 'People's Front...