Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back here you do things and never ask 'why?' 'cause there's no real answer. So you pay a thousand for a year at college, and more for the padded cell and the prison chow--the whole crew too anemic for words. You live from lab to library, a regular test-tube life...
...Swim. For some the answer is De Gaulle. The morning after Pleven's failure to form a government, Paris is plastered with posters declaring: "Call De Gaulle and France will be France!" Newspapers proclaim that a Colonel Barberot has convoked a meeting of the "Companions of the Liberation" because "13 years have sufficed to show that all we fought for has been lost," and that "in the service of our country we must use the capital represented by General de Gaulle...
...Despite fever, coughs and stomachaches, he had traveled some 4,000 miles across Greece by plane, train, ship and car, raised his stentorian voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral law (Greece's fourth since the end of World War II) designed to strengthen the two-party system...
...months. One reason: the money for the necessary hypodermic syringes just never showed up. When the epidemic struck in earnest, five of the city's 22 ambulances had been condemned as useless, and ten more were under repair. Only one driver was on duty at a time to answer calls for help...
...Small cars may be Detroit's answer to the recession," Manhattan's Longchamps restaurants proclaimed last week. "Ours is A LARGER WHISKEY GLASS." So saying, in three of its restaurants the twelve-restaurant chain trotted out 864 new shot glasses, each delivering an extra ⅜ oz. of spirits for the old, prerecession price (85?). Longchamps' long shot was not in the dark; a test run with the new glasses boosted liquor sales 5% in one restaurant...