Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Does the answer to this anomaly lie in Watergate and the sins of Richard Nixon-more to the point, the sins of those who condoned and even supported Nixon right up to the end? We have constantly surprised ourselves with the impact of Watergate. It reached deeper into our lives than anybody calculated. Just last week, before he went off to chair the Republican Convention, Congressman John Rhodes wondered whether "the American people might still be of a mind to punish Republicans at the polls for the sins of a Republican President no longer around." Rhodes said he found such...
...never been in Africa before, have you?" Before I could answer that I had, the Rohdesian would continue. "I know the Kaffir (black man) better than most do and, let me tell you, this beautiful country wouldn't last for two seconds under his control...
...story is very frightening," said TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. What was worrying Willwerth last week was a question for which millions of Americans, from epidemiologists to the victims' families sought an answer: What microbe, fungus, toxin or other killer took the lives of more than a score of people who had been present at the 1976 annual convention of the Pennsylvania American Legion in Philadelphia? "Death here," reported Willwerth by telephone from Harrisburg, where he talked with investigating doctors, "is just as sudden and unexplained as in a crime or science-fiction story. Even for the literal minded...
Ford took advantage of the opening two weeks ago, flying to Jackson with Wife Betty to pose for photos with individual delegates and plunging into a two-hour, closed question-and-answer session. "He acted like the President of the U.S. should," said one delegate. Reagan supporters had prepared a three-page list of hot queries, but Ford was ready. One reason: a sympathetic delegate had slipped the White House an advance look at most of the questions. After Ford's successful trip, his chief Southern strategist, Harry Dent, said any attempt to get the delegation...
...failure of the interviewers to find the answer put the main burden on the scientific sleuths working in state and federal laboratories. Their task involved a painstaking process of elimination, in which known disease agents were sought, and, if absent, exonerated...