Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational system as a whole, it has important implications. For as the nations colleges face a critical rise in the number of applicants by 1960, it has become obvious that some solution to the problems of expansion must be found. Closed circuit television may well be one answer to these problems...
Unlike Anthony Eden, France's Socialist Premier Guy Mollet had to answer no cries of national conscience over the Suez landings. For Mollet there was no Archbishop of Canterbury reading lessons in simple Christian morals or Labor opposition demanding his head: the French Assembly, except for the Communists and Poujadists, was united behind his invasion of Egypt...
That was all he needed. In a quick, impassioned speech far different from his dry, schoolmasterish recitations, Mollet said: "Nasser has lost. What has become of the bogus hero now that his army has refused to fight for him?" Without stopping to answer he rushed on to the new questions that Anglo-French aggression had created: "The repercussions of the measures we took have revealed the real situation in the Near East, the ambitions of the Soviet Union. They have made evident the absolute necessity for the three great Western powers to coordinate their policy." Next day Premier Mollet accepted...
...Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were at Egypt's service." So, he declared, did Jordan's young King Hussein and Syria's President El Kuwatly. "My answer was that we were worried about Jordan, and that the Egyptian army was able to repulse Israeli aggression...
...Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew up in a scandal (he was acquitted in 1928 of conspiracy with Fall, served six and a half months for refusing to answer Senate investigators, having his jurors shadowed). went right on making millions, until 1949 actively controlled Sinclair Oil Corp. (total 1955 assets...