Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...functions at Government House and so on. If the Duke presented himself for Communion without giving me notice, I think I should give him Communion; to avoid public disgrace, I wouldn't pass him over at the altar. But I should see him privately afterward, and ask him not to come again...
...hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far better than Lord Halifax that the French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords of the Third Reich and the protagonists of European revolution? On the answer to that question...
...than half the entire annual peacetime national income. Against this he presented plans for new revenues of only ?239,000,000, hardly 30% of the increase in expenditure and just about enough to pay for one month of warfare. To get this new income, Sir Kingsley was obliged to ask for new taxes, both direct and hidden. Basic rate for income tax rose from 37½% to 42½%. Sir Kingsley proposed that taxes should be collected at the source-by deductions from weekly payrolls. New sales taxes on luxuries-jewels, furs, fancy hats, silk ties-were...
Last week, as the Democratic Convention got under way, veteran, grey-haired Correspondent Merwin Browne asked at a press conference. "I would like to ask Mr. President, in all honesty and sincerity, why you have refrained from making known your position on the Third Term issue." Correspondent Browne had written and rewritten his question so that it would not provoke a wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention...
...Where will God lead us? Not, we may be sure, through easy or pleasant paths. That is not His way. He will not help us to avoid our difficulties. What He will do is to give to those, who humbly ask, the spirit that no dangers can disturb...