Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preventing the Prelude. There was no question but that "a very considerable" increase in defense spending would be required. Where would the money come from? Said the President: "Most emphatically, the answer does not lie in cutting mutual defense funds overseas-another important part of our own nation's security . . . The same applies to economic...
...world possible?" So asked Roscoe Pound, 87, dean from 1916 to 1936 of Harvard Law School and still a dean among U.S. legal scholars, at a Brooklyn Bar Association meeting last week. His answer: not only is a law of the world possible, but it will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control...
There was an excruciating moment of silence as I looked at him and he looked at me, and I realized he was talking to me and awaiting an answer...
Very good humor now, smiling at me, smiling aside at Bulganin, talking fast as if he had the answer ready. Laughs, looking at me. Snap, snap...
...surgeons learned last week of far-reaching Soviet progress in a difficult field -the rejoining of severed blood vessels. The Russians' answer to the problem: a stapling...