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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Justice Earl Warren is reported to have asked, "Who can define the meaning of un-American?" With two words I can answer: Earl Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Hate America. The answer could only be found by tuning in on the Voice of the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Amiable Grimaces | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...hewing to the line of mass appeal, argued Murrow, sponsors and broadcasters are lowering the prestige of TV to the point where the viewer is taking it less seriously-and its commercial credibility has begun to suffer. He added: "Perhaps the answer is that so-called public-service programing has got to get better. It must be done with more imagination, and achieve greater appeal . . . I don't believe that television has even begun to tap the possibilities that lie in the field of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Opiate of the People | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed. To the derisive question of the white man, "Where are your lands now?", his figure of Crazy Horse points its tragic answer with a 300-ft. arm : "My lands are where my dead lie buried." The figure has been outlined with paint (143 gallons), and is to stand in the round on the majestic scale of 563 ft. in height by 641 ft. in length. Standing Bear touched off the first charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Mountain-Carver | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...watchdog," he became the watchdog of the common law. The historic Coke maxims began to roll out. "No man may be punished for his thoughts"; "And if every man should be examined upon his oath, what opinion he holdeth concerning any point of religion, he is not bound to answer . . ."; "When an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law will. . . adjudge such Act to be void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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