Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American ports. Our bombers do not need American aerodromes . . . But we are not so sure that the U.S. will not someday need us ... The Pyrenees...
...need money, money and more money to get the organization rolling again," explained Illinois' Fred Virkus, a megaphone for the Colonel Bertie McCormick wing of the G.O.P. "But you are not going to get the money until you can answer the question, 'What does the Republican Party stand for?' in a way that everybody can understand...
...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...
Nobody had to read far to find out what the announcement meant: "Subsidiaries of United States Steel Corp. have announced today new mill prices . . ." Thus last week did Big Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless give his answer to the $100-a-month pensions won by the C.I.O. Steelworkers only five weeks before (TIME, Nov. 21). Because of higher operating costs, said Fairless, the company was raising the price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week...
Cianfarra's dispatch discreetly ducked the obvious question: Did Ingrid look as if she were an expectant mother in her sixth month? For a colleague, the Timesman had an answer: not at all. That at least threw some doubt on Louella's arithmetic...