Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elkins had backing for his story of Schrunk's bribe-taking: Elkins' bookkeeper told the McClellan committee that Cliff Bennett (who refused, without offering legal grounds, to answer questions) had come up $500 short in his accounts and had said, "Well, I gave it to Terry Schrunk." A hat-check girl in the 8212 Club recalled that Bennett, after talking to Schrunk on the night of the raid, asked her for a Manila envelope. Another club employee testified that he had seen Bennett count out "what I presumed was $500, and put it in a brown envelope...
...press, disliking Sukarno's plan but hesitant to criticize him, kept silent until Hatta spoke out against Sukarno's proposal to set up a "guided democracy" with all parties represented. "Oil and water," Hatta snapped, "don't mix." Hatta had a sane and solid answer to Sukarno's oft-repeated plea that "we cannot ignore the 6,000,000 people who voted for the Communist Party." Said Hatta: "Leave them in the opposition.'' Encouraged by Hatta's stand. Djakarta newspapers took...
Half a Pack a Day. Like other chest surgeons, Graham began to see more and more cases of lung cancer in the '30s, especially among men. His friend and fellow surgeon, Alton Ochsner of New Orleans (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), who did not smoke, had his own answer: it was caused by smoking. Dr. Graham, who smoked half a pack a day, was at first unconvinced by his ebullient colleague. World War II halted further studies of this problem, but in 1947 a second-year medical student named Ernest L. Wynder went to Graham and suggested a statistical study...
...runs out for men, so it may run out for our civilization, unnoticed until too late. But for all this, the education of Sam Norris ends in no new knowledge beyond the old lessons of human tolerance. Though it may seem unsatisfactory, "It takes all kinds" is the best answer at which confused human questioning can arrive...
...protect voting rights of Negroes--does not concern religion. For religious qualification is an almost impossible means of preventing integration or circumscribing political rights, thanks to traditional constitutional separation of church and state. The commission, now with its chief duties clearly defined, will be better able to answer the complaints for which it was mainly created...