Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springfield's answer to the demand for more firepower was the T 44, a fully automatic, .30-cal. rifle weighing one pound less than the unwieldy, semiautomatic 9½-lb. Garand, and carrying 20 rounds in its magazine clip to the Garand's eight...
Moscow thought it had the answer to Hungary: Ivan Serov...
When the Suez assault came, Eden gave an impressive show of a man tightly controlled. Day after day, he sat composed in the House of Commons while criticisms beat about his head. Whenever he rose to answer the baiting, he projected a conviction that he was sure he was right. Sir Horace Evans, who is also physician to the Queen, urged him repeatedly to take a few days off, but Eden stubbornly drove himself on, taking more and more of the Suez work load himself, sweeping aside any suggestion that he should delegate more work to other Cabinet members...
...trouble is that most women have no idea that they possess a muscle called pubococcygeus, let alone know how to strengthen it. At his Perineometer Clinic at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Kegel has developed an answer to that problem: a device (approved by the A.M.A.) called the Perineometer. Essentially a pressure-registering gauge, it consists of a compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus...
...particularly Twilight in Southern California, in which an egocentric Pagliacci of the novelty business grimaces and clowns his way through a party while his firm takes the long slide into bankruptcy. The finance company has his Cadillac; creditors are massing like enemy battalions; the money men don't answer their phones when he calls-and the harried businessman responds like a hermit in the grip of a mystical experience: "He saw it all. He couldn't stop talking. He would get his backing, he would recoup, he would be a power in the industry again. Everyone would smile...