Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point came when Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington asked Teller whether perhaps, in his eagerness to make new weapons, he might have got his judgment on disarmament distorted. This was a fair way of giving Teller a chance to answer in public the charges that some scientists make in private that he has lost all sense of proportion. The crowded committee room was silent. Teller began to reply: "I chose the profession of a scientist," he said, "and I am in love with science; and I would not do willingly or eagerly anything else but pure science...
...Admitted in answer to a question about future summit talks that he "wouldn't have any brief now to file as to the accomplishments of the [1955] Geneva Conference...
...answer was: no one. As Hoodlum Mickey Cohen once wailed, when asked who got the political payoff for a gangster's operations in Southern California: "There's no politics in Southern California you can deal with. It's anarchy...
Even if the study did not definitively answer why people tended to drop out of Harvard, it did give the psychiatrists their own personal ideas about the drop-out. Dr. Blaine thinks the drop-out is much more academically and esthetically oriented than the average student...
...Perhaps the basic answer", McArthur concludes, "is that the person who leaves really does not feel that college is a normal thing to do. What they really want to gain by leaving is a complete adult status...