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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to the lagging re-enlistment problem in our armed forces will never be found by consulting know-nothings like ex-Secretary of the Air Force Symington, Ralph J. Cordiner, or any other top-drawer official in the U.S. The real answer is not money but a recognition of the enlisted man as a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile? Or one of the little ones? Near Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Rockledge, the lady watchers came out on the public beaches munching picnic lunches, and casually waited for the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Leading from Strength | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565), which had fiercely supported the Kenny ticket during the election campaign. To pry the news out of City Hall, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell sent over four additional staffers-to no avail. To every question the reporters asked, city officials gave the same answer: "Send Gene Farrell down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Silent Treatment | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...booths of NBC's Twenty One last week rocked under a rhubarb that had even the head croupiers puzzled. Playing their sixth tie game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle of the Bones | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Breuer's partial answer to the objections was to use similar materials (old German limestone), match up cornice lines, and reduce scale by dividing the embassy into two building's connected by a glassed-in passageway. Now, with The Hague's burgomaster, planning commission and local architects behind him, Breuer is convinced that by the time the embassy is completed in the fall of 1958, people, including even the steadfast Hagenaars, will be prepared to accept and admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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