Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincerely hope that the vilifiers and detractors of Senator McCarthy have as few mistakes to answer to God for as Joe has. EDWARD CLARKE The Bronx...
...odds in Congress suddenly rose that Ike's defense budget would suffer little more than half a billion token cut because few Congressmen were hardy enough to challenge the Eisenhower last word on national security. Also many a Democrat was suddenly made aware that he might have to answer to constituents in 1958 for cutting the kind of domestic programs that had long been the principal Democratic stock in trade...
Perhaps voluntary giving might provide an answer to this dilemma, though with solicitation occuring so regularly, such a plan does not seem completely feasible. This student advocates some sort of organized fund drive to raise the standard of these pitifully black receptacles. Joseph C. Walker...
...first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program is being administered by a man they trust...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince...