Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...focus last week was on a pink-pated labor boss named Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000-man Teamsters Union, who arrogantly refused to answer a Senate committee's questions about misconduct and misuse of union funds that overlay much more serious implications of abuse of power. As Beck ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, the Americans who writhed most were the other leaders of organized labor, who feared that what was going on and what was disclosed might give all of labor a bad name. "We are in Gethsemane," said one A.F.L.-C.I.O leader...
...rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon's knuckle dug into his spine. Beck soon developed a sort of Pavlov's-dog response to the knuckle-every time he felt it, he automatically began reading, "I must decline...
Question: How to make an airplane or missile fly farther and faster. Answer: Give it fuel that packs more punch...
...middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...
...gonna keep 'em out in Dubuque, after they've seen Broadway? In the case of Dick Bissell, the answer is not easy. When his funny little 1953 novel, 7½ Cents, was turned by Director George Abbott & Co. into a hit musical. The Pajama Game, the big money and the taste of Broadway may have weakened Author Bissell's resistance to the charms of the old ladies from Dubuque. He now lives just up the road a piece from Times Square in Exurbia, Connecticut, with his wife and four children, gets along with two station wagons...