Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ask what the cause is of the current situation and why much that gave both sides definite mutual advantages-political, as well as trade and economic-was disrupted, the answer should not be sought in Moscow. American policy has had its zigzags in the past, but in the past few years the U.S. leadership has in general taken a course hostile to the interests of detente, toward the arms race...
...year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right thing to do," said the groom. He informed the elder Reagans a few hours before, but, he explained, "I didn't ask my parents to attend because they're real busy now." The next Reagan wedding may be more elaborate. Maureen Reagan-the President-elect's twice-divorced daughter by Actress Jane Wyman-quietly became engaged in August to Californian Dennis Ravel. The couple is aiming for a California nuptial some...
...pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...
...likewise. They start out shimmying with hope and wind up hung over, believing with Baudelaire that the world will end by being swallowed up in an immense yawn. Their gardens are Candide's, not Eden's. Ever present at the creation, they find it wanting, and ask for sympathy in their autobiographies...
...Well, 'e's one o' them chinamen, like as you see scuttlin' about them odd ships in the 'arbour--pieces o'junk, if you ask me" --"A Little Knife Music," Hasty Pudding Theatricals...