Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week's end, the bishops had not given their answer. But in Rome, the Pope once more sweepingly denounced Mindszenty's jailers and warned Catholics of the dangers inherent in subservience to totalitarian states...
With Teeth. The debate had helped clear the air. It had also raised-and apparently answered-a larger question. Was the U.S. prepared, in the age of atomic bombs and jet-propelled planes, to pledge armed support of Europe? The answer, after a few minutes' hesitation, seemed to be yes-even if it had to be qualified to fit the powers of Congress. In a Washington Post poll, 50 Senators declared they would vote to declare war if any country of the North Atlantic pact was attacked; only one of 88 polled indicated he probably would...
Lange had taken the U.S. side in that dispute. Now he had come to ask what arms Norway would get if she joined up with the U.S. He took his answer home with him as a secret. But Washington and Europe-knew that the answer was vague...
...mayor's answer was much more representative of the earnest, if puzzled, search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan...
...Virtual Slavery?" Happy Chandler's attitude, expressed last week, was that "no major leaguer makes less than $5,000 a year and some make up to $100,000. If you call that peonage, then a lot of us would like to be in it." But Gardella had one answer to that: his salary with the Giants had ranged from $1,850 to $4,000. Judge Jerome Frank of the court of appeals had another: "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that higher pay excuses virtual slavery...