Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government. What has happened to American civilization, the American home, the American church, and our educational system, that it produces or tolerates this sort of conduct? And why should the St. Louis law enforcement agencies be so lenient with such rioters? Is closing the pools to Negroes the answer? Is the assault of a mob on a few helpless individuals a less serious offense than an assault of a single individual upon another...
...reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
...months, she wrote petitions to the authorities asking for an investigation-or at least for some word about where her husband was buried. Finally, she wrote a long letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. "No one will answer me," wrote Lena Tobiansky, "therefore I have turned to you . . . My husband and I were married 15 years . . . We Jived happily and closely together . . . There could have been no secrets between us . . . I am suffering, despised and ignored...
Radio's critics have complained that radio is too lazy to produce its own comedians. This summer, while such vaudeville-trained funnymen as Fred Allen and Jack Benny are on vacation, radio hopes to answer the critics with three young, homegrown comics: Henry Morgan, Abe Burrows and Dave Garroway...
...dedicate the first building of their new Medical Research Foundation, Oklahomans wanted a big name. They picked Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, and sat back to wait for an answer to their invitation through diplomatic channels. After ten days, General Manager Hugh Payne got tired of waiting, picked up his telephone and called Fleming in London; it took four minutes (and cost $8) to get Sir Alexander's acceptance...