Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...descending horde, pointing to a record 1,750,000 visitors v. 1,500,000 last year, soothed the doubt nagging at every Miami Beach hotelkeeper: had the Beach overbuilt? The answer: not yet, despite the $120 million spent on new hotels in the past five years, bringing the total along the seven-mile strip of sandy beach to 380 hotels and more than 30,000 rooms...
SUPERCHARGED ENGINE, officially rated at 300 h.p., will be offered for $447 extra on Fords and Thunderbirds as Ford's answer to Chevrolet's 283-h.p. fuel injection engine. New Ford V-8 engine uses no manifold vacuum to draw fuel to carburetor; instead, fuel-air mixture is blown into cylinders...
...answer was broadly evasive: "We have to start with the proposition that if we have particularly topical comedians like Hope, we will also have plugs. A rule which tries to bar all plugs is not only unworkable but undesirable." NBC also admitted that it had tried with little success "to cut down on the number of trade-name references" used by Hope...
...good poet is to pose riddles-riddles of life, death and immortality-for the heart to answer. The difference between a good and a great poet lies in the lyricism, evocation and after effect of his oracular lines and, most important, in the cry of recognition drawn from the reader. This collection of poems, written over the past 25 years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers...
...answer is the old hockey word "hustle," which the Crimson used to great advantage in defeating Boston University in the semi-finals and B.C. in the finals. And the hustle itself was prompted by a near-upset at the hands of Army in the first round...