Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced to blow it apart with resulting damage to the canal. Nonetheless there was now optimistic talk of clearing the canal in a month less than the earlier estimates and of opening it to ships up to 10,000 tons by early March. All of this was a sharp answer to uninformed talk in Britain of U.N. dilatoriness, an attack which may prove as baseless as the earlier British assumption that only their pilots knew how to maneuver ships through the canal...
...stood some 500 meters above. The guides decided to leave the boys and drag the airmen up as best they could, but in the attempt the injured sergeant slipped into a Crevasse and hung there unconscious. Saving his life cost the others all the strength they had left. In answer to radio calls for help, the air force dropped more guides on the mountain, but their problem was soon less a matter of rescue of the two climbers than of simple survival for themselves...
Webster said that snow is crystals of water vapor condensed when the temperature of the air is below 0* C. (32* F.). An aloof and totally unfeeling answer. This is ever Webster's failing when you most need his help...
...Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y., 1917." "Continuous snow fighting will require the systematic and constant use of the sewers on the main streets." There it was. One sometimes knows instinctively when a thing is right. We knew the sewers would be the answer, if Cambridge would try them...
JULY. Confidential will write an expose of the Harvard Summer School. The article will brand Professor Pitirim Sorokin "The intellectual's answer to Polly Adler." Professor Fieser will declare that he can create complex organic forms. President Pusey will challenge him to make a tree...