Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic be elected President of the U.S.? Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000 voters of all religions, the Gallup poll gave Jack Kennedy some new answers to ponder. Findings...
...dashing cold water on the ardor of his countrymen angered by Red China's crushing of Tibet and its repeated threats against Indian "expansionists," Nehru protested that it would do no good to answer Chinese abuse with Indian abuse...
...been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more than 355,000 votes and a fourth term for Tubman, only 41 votes for his self-sacrificing opponent...
...Berlin? The question agitates the free world, and last week an NBC news team headed by Commentator Chet Huntley addressed itself to the difficult task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...
...addition to the very real naivete with which we as a delegation approached many situations, it is important to remember that on a number of occasions during his visit to the United States the author of the Ogonek article had been rather hard pressed to answer the questions put to him. His experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses...