Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beck also testified that he once voted to oust University of Washington professors who invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions about communism...
...Abbott, 29, found guilty of murdering a teen-aged girl, would die in San Quentin's gas chamber. Davis waited tensely for the U.S. Court of Appeals to grant a stay of execution based on his claim that Abbott had not received due process of law. Then the answer came: appeal denied...
...then arranged with a TV station to broadcast a tape-recorded plea to the governor. Knight got the message. At 9:02 he called Davis by radiotelephone, granted an hour's stay. Six minutes later, Davis presented a writ of habeas corpus to the State Supreme Court. The answer came down at 10:42: petition denied. Attorney Davis tried again, this time with a frantic message to the Federal District Court. Judge Louis E. Goodman refused a further postponement. It was 10:50-ten minutes...
Bullocks & Ballots. Looking on at this process, the U.S. had once taken the simple view that all nations should get their independence as quickly as possible. If someone suggested that a people was not yet ready for freedom, the answer was that, as G. K. Chesterton said of blowing one's nose, there are some things that people can do better for themselves than anyone can do for them. In Indonesia, in Morocco and elsewhere, the U.S. has learned that to receive independence requires as much self-discipline and maturity as to give...
Lord Flea. Columbia Records' answer to Victor's Belafonte (who still outsells the rest of the field) is Terry Gilkyson, son of a Pennsylvania insurance executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...