Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist sectors, said Kennan in the Reith Lectures on the BBC in London, will eventually make war inevitable. "I am not particularly concerned to learn whether our Soviet friends could, if they wished, destroy us. seven times over or only four times; nor do I think that the answer to this danger lies in the indefinite multiplication of our own present ability to do fearful injury to them. Our problem is no longer to prevent people from acquiring the ability to destroy us; it is too late for that. Our problem is to see that they do not have...
...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
Will Congress, split 50-50, be able to work effectively? Won't the parties clamor threateningly for the more important Cabinet posts? Lleras knows well that his truce may collapse over just such stumbling blocks. His answer: "No one has thought that other courses could be harder-for example, living eight years under a state of siege. But we have just done that, and I do not see why we cannot now coexist peacefully, rebuilding the country, for twelve years." A crippled beggar in Bogotá spoke for most Colombians when asked if he knew what the plebiscite issue...
...shared by many of us." Editorialized the daily Haaretz: "The basic question is whether Israel is a state of free citizens whose rights are equal without discrimination of race, or whether it is the preserve only of those who have entered the covenant of our father Abraham. The answer of the rabbinate and the religious parties is unequivocal. The fence that separated Aharon Steinberg from the other dead of Pardes Hanna symbolizes an outlook: that all those who are not Jews have their place outside the fence and don't belong to us alive or dead. This...
...hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted you to do the chores, you might not answer. But if you thought she needed you, you'd be in a hurry. I feel the same way about this...