Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Groans on the Hill. Asked what he intended to do to carry out the reorganization of the Defense Department promised in his State of the Union message, Ike replied that nothing could be done until there is a "consensus" of Congress and service chiefs-an answer that was promptly interpreted in the Pentagon as backing down...
Prodded by Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, on whether he thought the 1959 military budget was big enough, Air Force General Twining growled an answer that Symington should have known. Once the budget is firmly set by the executive department of the Government, said West Pointer Twining, the committee "should not bring [military men] back again and say, 'Is this still adequate?' . . . In the military terminology, a commander makes a decision, and if everybody starts bucking it, it is just no good, you have no military...
...dining tables of Washington's National Press Club. Last week Dulles, still glowing from the President's press-conference tribute, went to a sellout luncheon at the National Press Club to face his critics. By the time he had finished his formal speech and a question-and-answer session, he had left on the record one of his clearest appraisals of his own job and U.S. cold war policy...
Details of the agreement, reached after months of talks in Washington, are not yet available. It is understood, however, that the Department plans to answer some 52 points of "people-to-people" exchange. Russian ambassador Georgi Zaroubin presented the exchange proposals in talks with Ambassador William E. Lacey last November...
...wandering outside the temple precincts, she found the answer-a human lover in the guise of a one-armed soldier. But the god tolerated no mortal rival. Her lover died in a mysterious accident, and a temple goat, sacred symbol of the god himself, ravished her during one of her ecstasies. Pregnant, she was stoned out of the temple, to bear her child on a mountainside, midwifed only by sympathetic goats. The years did not answer her agonizing question: How was her gentle idiot son begotten-by the one-armed soldier or in that capric caprice...