Word: solicited
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...Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, leaned forward in his chair, draping himself over his desk. Newsmen tensed, ready to spring for the nearest telephones. By that moment last week it was clear that Talbott had misused his position as Secretary of the Air Force to solicit business for Paul B. Mulligan & Co., the Manhattan clerical-efficiency firm in which he was a partner. Almost everyone in the subcommittee's hearing room thought that he was about to resign from the Air Force. Talbott resigned, all right-from Mulligan...
Talbott had a quick answer: "Everything I have done is proper and ethical. I did not solicit any business." From the firm's files, however, sub committee staffers picked up correspondence written by and to Secretary Talbott...
...polling was over, undergraduates began to take up more violently the cause of 20 scrubwomen who had been fired from the staff of Widener Library without advance notice or advance pay. Immediately students began to organize the Square Deal Association, whose members marched out into the Square attempting to solicit funds for the fired scrubwomen by holding out wash buckets to passers-by. Sufficient funds for the women were finally raised at the "Scrubwomen's Ball...
...first words that rolled off the tongue of Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman (accurate . . . alliance . . . ambitious) should have been easy. But to Sandra's great surprise, one girl spelled dessert with an "i." After that, 100 words passed without a slip. Then one twelve-year-old spelled solicit with an "s" instead of "c." After that, the heads began to roll faster...
...unprecedented grant will derive from a fund raised in honor of Little, who had been Master of the House from 1938 until he died last spring. Shortly after Little's death a group of his friends began to solicit contributions from alumni who had been Adams House residents while Little was Master. The campaign later extended to faculty members, Harvard Clubs, and other friends of Little. In all, $15,000 was raised...