Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closer to this generation than any other. The world is not what we naively wish it were. Man should not have the feeling "that life owes him something . . ." When we begin to see that things no longer obey our wishes, we are matured. This is the answer of the Lord from the whirlwind...
When the convoy arrived at the austere Soviet embassy on Washington's Sixteenth Street, the sidewalk was jammed with photographers and newsmen, and it was Mikoyan's turn to answer questions. When was he going to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles? "Tomorrow." Who else was he going to see in the U.S.? Replied Mikoyan with a smile: "You'll find out in time...
Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
Wrote Admiral Shima, in English: "I am deeply impressed by your spirit of study in the war history, and am glad to answer your question. It is happy for me to think if my explanations written on the attached papers would be useful to you." The admiral went on testily to assert that "little information concerning actions of Shima fleet during the battle are found in the U.S., and many reports . . . were written neither with ample knowledge nor facts of actual features." He defended himself against Critic James A. Field Jr., who wrote in The Japanese at Leyte Gulf that...
...years from now-the next business generation." Another Cordiner complaint: business is so big that individual initiative is often stifled. Men who once would have been bosses of their own companies have too little chance in a corporation to run their own shows. Cordiner's answer to both problems: massive decentralization...