Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future attitudes of the Chinese Communist Party. It wiped out 15 years of "liberal" cant about the tame Chinese Communists. Probably it would effectively silence the British and U.S. Shanghai businessmen who were clamoring to their governments to establish diplomatic relations with the Reds. Mr. Acheson had his answer...
Other elders echoed the regent's words. Exclaimed one: "If the chief's wife sets me a task, I would do it. But if a white woman says, 'Chop wood!', I would answer, 'How much?' " Another said: "Nobody can cast fire among the people he loves. If you bring this woman, the tribe will scatter and [pointing to a cattle stockade] you will be chief of these poles...
...Liberal Party shunned "rash decisions" on the royal question; they wanted tax cuts first. The Socialists growled ominously: if Leopold came back, they would call a general strike. As the tense maneuvering between the parties continued, it seemed that Belgium's royal question would have no easy answer...
...Answer. By dint of will power rather than brilliance, Schweitzer passed creditably in his studies at the Gymnasium (preparatory school), and at 18 entered the University of Strasbourg to major in philosophy and theology. He began to enjoy himself hugely. Strasbourg's faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter...
...humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found. In addition to the outward, I had now inward happiness...