Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungary's Freedom Fighters hope to win? The answer is that, unlike the Poles before them, who infiltrated the party apparatus and to an extent controlled their break from Moscow, they did not pause to think that far ahead. Their motto might well have been that of another great romantic, William of Orange: "One need not hope in order to act, nor succeed in order to persevere...
...quit his party in protest over the Suez occupation, was a close friend of the Moorhouse family and also knew Nasser from his days as a Middle East hand. "What would you really like me to do?" he asked Moorhouse. "Get over to Cairo," was the answer. "I believe that you could bring my son back if he is still alive." Banks promised to do what he could. By now the War Office, the Foreign Office, U.N. headquarters and 10 Downing Street were all at work...
...with such reforms as accelerating courses, eliminating departmental duplication, and relieving professors of routine paper work better handled by a secretary. But though a little expansion, e.g., 10%, might be feasible for such schools as Columbia's, a sizable increase in the student body is no answer to the graduate school's problem...
...portrait was remarkable for the way Chou failed in appearance and performance to live up to his reputation. Chou agreed to make the show for Commentator Edward R. Murrow only if questions were submitted in advance, then arrived at his Rangoon rendezvous with Murrow and camera crew willing to answer only ten of them. (Among the many subjects he declined to discuss: U.S. prisoners in China, Titoism, Peking's offer of a governmental post to Chiang Kai-shek.) Murrow & Co., and viewers as well, were fortunate that Chou did not answer more. He sat, solemn, humorless and tired-looking...
Produced with the help of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the show interspersed its film clips with informal question-and-answer chats by scientists. Some of the developments were not new, but the sight of them was. Samples: tranquilizer pills transformed a jabbering schizophrenic into a calmly rational man; the gelatinous flutter of an exposed human heart was deliberately stopped by injection to permit a surgeon to repair the heart while a machine pumped the patient's blood. To keep spectators abreast of scientific strides, CBS now plans a series of weekly half-hour shows...