Word: answer
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...answer is a complex one, with ample ammunition on either side. In a sense, it is Curry's business alone. If it weren't for his football status, no one but a few friends would be conscious of or care about the whole thing. On the other hand, it is his football status that places him under some obligation, however small, to the Harvard crowd that wants to know what's going...
...Notes. Actually, under the rules of the 90-minute debate, each candidate will have three minutes in which to answer questions. Candidates may make notes but not bring any background materials. If there is a follow-up question, the candidate will have another two minutes to reply further. The opponent will then be permitted his own comment of two minutes on the subject. There will be no opening statements, but at the end of the debate, Ford and Carter will be allowed three-minute summaries...
During the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, a local Catholic priest received a phone call from a Boston clergyman asking what steps the church was taking to cool the hostilities. The answer did not completely satisfy the Bostonian. Last fall the Little Rock priest dialed his Yankee colleague: "I'm returning your call," he said. The Bostonian hung...
MANATEES. Native to Florida, South America and the Caribbean, the manatee (or sea cow) was once regarded as the answer to the water hyacinths; each was believed to consume as much as 100 lbs. of the hyacinths a day. But placed in weed-clogged waters, the manatee ate its way through a mere 40 lbs. of the damnable plant daily. The hulking, hairless creatures, who may have helped inspire the mermaid legend (their mammaries faintly resemble those of a woman), also find it difficult to coexist with power boats. University of Miami biologists report that about 20% of all manatees...
...most proud of the two Houston shows that reached Broadway: Scott Joplin's Treemonisha last fall and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess this week. "Why can't grand opera produce something like Kiss Me, Kate"? he asks. If anyone is going to come up with the answer some day, it could well be Houston's Gockley...