ask, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

I may have mentioned this increasingly common TV-news type item before.

The headline on the Yahoo! home page is "Obama's ask of Middle East."

The word isn't repeated in the accompanying story, which uses the verb
"implore."

So the headline could have said "Obama's plea to Middle East," but "ask" is
shorter and maybe less wimplisitic.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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