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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special meeting--which many had felt would become a highly volatile one--quickly turned into a lengthy question and answer period. Willard Johnson, NSA vice-president of international affairs, was the center of most of the questioning...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Johnson Speaks for NSA In Open Council Meeting | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

Most of these drowned cities are unexplored and unaccounted for. No one knows how their ruins got so deep underwater; the general level of the Mediterranean has risen only a fraction of an inch since glacial times. Gargallo hopes that his underwater ruins may hold the answer to some Etruscan mysteries. "Water," he says, "is destructive, but it can also preserve. Mud gives protection from time, weather and greedy hands. If the sea bottom is undisturbed, some relics last almost indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drowned Cities | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...only fixed winner in the Journal contest. Another was Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fix Is the Word | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Along with an answer to the question, the reader also gets Marko's rationalization. "I am not my brother's keeper," he tells Captain Curtis. "I am interested in survival ... I do.not want to become a suburb of Cairo, or Moscow. A Chinese comfort-station ... I want to defend myself ... I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Man | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said the hour has arrived for an answer to the question: "Shall Berlin be remembered as the deathbed of democracy--or as the graveyard of aggression...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Khrushchev Asks Western Troops To Leave Berlin | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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