Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lying was easy for you, wasn't it?" "It was like . . ." "Answer the question!" "I believe...
...Answer the Question. McGohey paused at this show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
Angrily, the court ordered the answer stricken from the record. The long-sought hour of martyrdom was at hand. The entire defense, counsel and defendants, was on its feet, roaring and waving its arms at the court. Judge Medina hastily ordered the jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged...
...CRIMSON is convinced that any answer will be unsatisfactory. Even the most intelligent men in the country could not devise just and fair methods of carrying out this policy: for it is a dangerous policy, it is a policy base on fear, it is a policy that is subversive of the American tradition...
...days before the big invasion, when some 150,000 graduating college seniors would fan out over the workaday U.S. in search of jobs. What kind of people would they turn out to be? This week, after interviewing deans, campus placement bureaus, business recruiters and seniors, FORTUNE gave an answer...