Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, listen: you don't get that many ideas. Sometimes you have to tell people who want to be writers, who ask the question, "How come you don't write one or two novels a year?", the answer is that novelist just don't get that many ideas. If they get lucky they might get one that can be developed into a novel. Writers don't have choices. Unless you're writing for a newspaper, the you're assigned to write theater or book reviews, or you interview a writer. Playwrights don't, novelists don't really have a choice...
...novel about political life in Washington. He also noted that John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs adviser to Nixon, had written twice to ask for money for his legal expenses. "From a human point of view," Rockefeller testified, "I'm embarrassed to say I didn't answer the letters...
...Rockefeller," Byrd broke in, "you can answer my question with one word, yes or no, and I'll be satisfied. Can you separate the interests of big business from the national interest when they differ...
...Mary Jo would leave for her motel without her pocketbook or room key? How could Kennedy mistake a rough dirt road for the paved road leading to the ferry? Why had he not sought help at the houses that he passed after the accident? Why did he refuse to answer further questions about the affair, telling reporters, as he did last week, "I can live with my testimony...
...wondering if it would ever take place. Striking Packer veterans had ominously announced that the exhibition game would be stopped. Devine feared that physical violence or sabotage might take place at the stadium. Then he had an even more unsettling thought. For several hours, he had been getting no answer on his home phone, though he knew that two of his teen-age daughters were there. Thoughts of kidnaping or other foul play crossed his mind. Devine immediately dispatched two husky equipment managers to his house. The girls, they discovered, had simply overslept...