Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, invited to address the meeting, entered Washington's National Guard Armory almost unheralded to face the delegates with his answer. Government, said he, has a proper duty to take steps to help special groups that have suffered economically, and such help is given in housing, urban renewal, farm support programs, rural electrification and other ways. But "the effort here is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen...
...Probable answer in the Democratic 86th Congress: REA's low interest rates will not be raised...
...faces were different, all right, as Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy called three men accused of being big-city pinball kingpins. But, as Kennedy expected, answers were the same: gruff Fifth Amendment monotones were rattled off by hard-eyed John Vitale of St. Louis, Michael Genovese of Pittsburgh, and Frank Zito of Springfield, Ill. Protested Zito with heavy accent: "I recline to answer." But other witnesses were more inclined. Among them...
...attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back to me." Néfissa's answer to those who clutched at her arms and clothing: "Vote for me, and I will get a new law passed giving us Moslem women our rights...
...miss out on the real advantage of the Harvard Houses, the intellectual tone created by the direct participation of both tutors and masters in the daily life of the students. Recruiting graduate students or young teachers as head residents, and where possible as resident tutors, may prove a partial answer...