Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Importuned by newsmen as he left a Capitol Hill hearing, McElroy hustled to the Pentagon, checked his records, jogged his memory, heated his temper and summoned the Joint Chiefs. Had they received any such proposal? The official, collective answer: negative. But Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor explained that he had given Reston "background information," might well have oversimplified in trying to get his point across. McElroy glared, suggested that Taylor had been less than candid with Newsman Reston, announced that the incident was closed...
Anticipate that each Kennedy will ask you what you think of another Kennedy's a) dress, b) hairdo, c) backhand, d) latest public achievement. Be sure to answer "terrific" This should get you through dinner. Now for the football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above...
...metal plate was not healing. He went back to the hospital for another operation, and missed most of the 1955 session. Kennedy's health has been raised as another liability to his presidential candidacy-but if he holds out at his recent pace until 1960, he should answer all such questions...
...crude ballistic missile that can follow only a predictable course to a single target. But a hypervelocity missile that moves about as fast and can change its course in mid-flight or take evasive action will be almost "ultimately" hard to counter. Such subtly steered invaders will be the answer to the still-untested anti-missile missile...
...Vice versa. You see, I've found the answer: the dorms are amplifying systems during the day; you can't walk through a library without some hornrimmed creature goggling from between the pages of a mouldy scrapbook at you; and this Square is palsy in motion; this place makes my flesh crawl right off my bones during...