Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippians expect it in December, a month before the legislature opens its regular session. Confident of support, when the time comes, from a bloc of young pro-Coleman legislators and from some oldtimers with specific constitutional changes on their minds, Coleman in effect gave to his newspaper question this answer: "Mississippi will have a new constitution. It cannot live without...
None of this constituted an answer to Adenauer's original question, but the shrewd old Chancellor had not really expected any. With a general election coming up, what Adenauer wanted-and what he got-was public confirmation that, no matter what his Socialist opponents might say, Russia is far less interested in German reunification on any terms than it is in preserving the status quo in Europe, so as to give itself time to regain its hold on the satellites...
...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
...hired comely Geraldine Ann Bernstein, 23, away from London Records, Inc. to be his secretary. At that time, Geraldine, a New York University English major, was earning $4,160 annually v. Van Doren's $4,400 a year as an English instructor at Columbia. Together, they answered thousands of fan letters (mostly handout entreaties) that swamped Van Doren. Along the way, the couple chivalrously rejected a passel of outright marriage proposals. Another proposal-made by Van Doren himself-was accepted. In the Virgin Islands last week, Charles Van Doren, 31, answered one more question. His response...
...breakdown was given for Great Britain.) Asked about the influence of religion in their countries, 69% of the Americans said they felt that it is increasing; 52% of the Britons said they felt that it is decreasing. In the U.S. 81% look to religion as something that can answer "most of today's problems"; only 46% of the Britons polled were of the same opinion, while 27% dismissed religion as old-fashioned (as opposed...