Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Vice President Richard Nixon rose one night last week to deliver a major U.S. foreign policy statement. Before him sat 1,500 members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association in town for the National Automobile Show (see BUSINESS). The Vice President had a twofold mission: 1) to answer the weeks of criticism of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and 2) to lay new groundwork for the strengthening of the Atlantic alliance and the whole free world...
...perpetrated such a frightful crime? After a night of questioning, the police got the answer from the criminal himself-the frustrated surgeon-turned-priest, who had performed his first operation on the dead body of his mistress. "I offered Régine absolution before I killed her," said the Abbé Desnoyers...
...answer to the charges, Sullivan said that he wished "to make it perfectly plain that no relatives of mine were involved in any way." He said he "voted as my conscience guided me, acountable to no group or clique...
...Bentley here supplies part of the answer when he writes, "Theatrical criticism is a branch of reporting." And so it is; a description of who did what on a certain evening in a certain theatre, and how it was done. The criteria of this aspect of criticism are just the same as for any other kind of reporting--it must be accurate and detailed. Mr. Bentley's descriptions of the last two New York theatre seasons are accurate, since he is a fine observer and knows what to look for in a production, both the feelings which it imparts...
...purpose of the drive, according to DeGuglielmo, is to eliminate the great number of out-of-staters who do not answer their summonses or to whom summonses cannot be served. A summons for parking violations must be delivered within six days or it becomes invalid...