Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applause, without so much as a Regular Cheer for the Pandit. As rubbernecks goggled, Nehru visited Lamont and Houghton Libraries. In the Lamont reading room he asked, wide-eyed, "And can the students borrow these books?"--followed by some uneasy moments while University officialdom tried to recall the right answer...
Somebody dubbed the little group "The Flying Squadrons." They move throughout the city on a sound truck and alight upon precinct after precinct, ringing individual doorbells and selling their candidate to whoever answers. They are all well-trained and courtcous; as students, they figure it is their business to know the questions that people might ask, and to be prepared to answer them...
...decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands of dollars...
...cases where the blood clots quickly, an anti-clotting agent to slow the process might be the answer. But Ochsner warned that such agents are "too dangerous." His suggestion: alpha tocopherol phosphate, "a normal antithrombin found within the blood [which] appears to represent a satisfactory substance to correct an antithrombin deficiency...
...fathers are willing to answer any questions," he told his Indian flock. "There is much for you to learn . . . You say you have a religion just...