Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peaceful." Mayor Gayle and Police Commissioner Sellers rushed out with the cops to answer the alarm and found themselves up against a Negro crowd in the ugliest sort of mood. King's nonviolent teachings had sunk deep (since the boycott began, Montgomery's crimes of violence by Negroes have decreased by an estimated 20%), but at this moment the impulse to answer white violence with Negro violence seemed irresistible. A growl of fury came from the Negro crowd; there was a forward surge that left no doubt in the mind of anyone present that Mayor Gayle...
...Force units at the border trouble spots "in consultation with the parties concerned." But the Israelis protested that this only gave Nasser a veto over any UNEF moves. When Israeli officials asked Hammarskjold to seek a statement from Egypt renouncing warlike intentions, he not only refused but demanded an answer within 24 hours to two significant questions of his own: 1) Will Israel agree to the posting of U.N. forces on the Israeli side of the line? 2) Will Israel evacuate its civilian as well as military units out of the Gaza Strip...
After the Israelis refused to answer these questions which Jerusalem newspapers termed "an ultimatum," the Arab-Asian bloc this week moved to debate sanctions against Israel. Washington's hopes that Ben-Gurion would accept private U.S. assurances of support arid pull out gave way to pessimism; U.S. officials predicted that Israel's holdout would damage its own long-term self-interest...
...Conservative voters hurled loaded questions at the Tory candidate in London's teeming, pie-shaped North Lewisham constituency. But the candidate, a blacksmith's son who has become a prosperous manufacturer (structural steel), was kefauvering his way ("I'm Norman Farmer; I'd like to answer any questions . . .") from door to door, day after...
Seizing the rare opportunity to play on the fears of a whole rent-controlled generation who remember the old tales of wicked landlords, Laborites plastered the walls of North Lewisham with ominous broadsides (CAN I LOSE MY HOME? CERTAINLY . . .). The government's answer, as officially phrased by Candidate Farmer, is that decontrol is the "logical first step in getting rid of the housing shortage." The Tories' main hope lies in getting the bill passed as soon as possible to prove its long-range benefits...