Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they explained that they must trade to live, and that U.S. stick-in-the-mud policies on tariff cuts had given them little choice. But when the talk turned to the observation that it was time for the U.S. to "reappraise" its basic nonrecognition of Red China, the answer was flatly no (see box). For its part, said the State Department, "the U.S. contemplates no change in its policy of total embargo on trade with Communist China...
...with a shield against Red Communist expansion. The ultimate aim: to prove that, given security and political stability, a non-Communist Asia can simultaneously solve its economic problems and work toward improvement and independence of the individual-and thus give the lie to the Communist myth that the only answer to Asian poverty is totalitarianism...
...listened and for a long time could make no sense out of what I heard-until I realized that the language was English." She tried to join in the conversation, but the others were suspicious of her. At first there was no answer. But after repeatedly tapping out her name she discovered that the man in the cell below hers was an old friend of her father's. The man in the cell next to his was Paul Ignotus...
...Free. One morning around Easter 1955, Florence tapped and got no answer from Paul. Later that year, for no given reason, she was released from prison. Months afterward she received a secretly relayed message from Paul. He had been taken to another prison and had no hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others...
...also promised "not to abuse" his present position as chief of state, but left no doubt that he intended to run and win. Presidential Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich mulatto businessman, promptly charged that Fignole's candidacy would be "illegal and undemocratic." Fignole's answer was an oblique warning. Said he to his followers: "I ask you people to remain calm- but also to watch everything that may threaten the government. I ask you to respect lives and property-but also to keep your eyes open...