Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allegations," even though "I finally gave up the prize" because of them. He even managed, by pointing out that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize five years ago (long before Doctor Zhivago had been printed and read in the West), to signal to Pravda's readers his answer to the charge that the award was a purely political...
...General Henry R. Sullivan, for permission to attend the game at Iowa City. The general countered with an offer to let the cadets go to the Stanford game in Palo Alto. Protested the cadets: "We'll beat Stanford anyway, sir, but the team needs us at Iowa." The answer was still no. The cadet wing gathered in the courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan explained patiently that the trip would involve a 20-hour bus ride each way, that it would cost every cadet $25. Each...
...Hollywood tradition, the red phone has an unlisted number. On the rare occasions when it rings, the Bird stares at it in sullen suspicion. Has the town finally got his number? Then he relaxes. "No one knows that phone. Must be a wrong number," he says, and refuses to answer...
...country's economy could no longer compete with those of the U.S., Russia and China under a haphazard system that prevented some bright children of the poor from reaching responsible jobs rightfully theirs, and fortified doltish sons of the rich and well-born in positions of power. The answer: meritocracy, which is rule by the most talented, determined according to the formula I+E = M (Intelligence plus Effort equals Merit...
...first answer is very French but not much fun. Brigitte's uncle, a not-too-old goat of a Spanish nobleman, tries to horn in on her afternoon nap, and only the fortunate interruption of a passing prelate rescues the heroine (and the audience) from a fade worse than death. The second answer is very Spanish but rather grotesque. Since no suitable male is available, B.B. decides to make playful advances to a fighting bull. As she sidles up to him mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood...