Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters discount Welsh nationalism as unserious playacting. One of his protagonists, in exasperation, chucks the sword into a pond, where it sinks without a deathbed speech. He explains, "I had to grasp a chunk of the romantic past and find it rusty." Which does not entirely answer a last-page question to the author: "What was that all about...
...office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...
...size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that two of them share the same birthday. How many must be in a group to guarantee a fifty-fifty chance that two have a birthday in common? "The surprising answer," he says, "is that there need be only 23." Doubters can find the proof in a section called "Probability and Coincidence...
...that the U.S. is talking to Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, what should the next step be? For Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, two moderates whose unofficial alliance is seen by the U.S. as a key to peace in the region, the answer is obvious -- and familiar: get the U.S. to budge Israel...
...brass stammered that they did not have enough helicopters. "Come on," Bennett chided. "Tell me honestly, just how many helicopters do you have?" Before the answer came, the State Department rushed in to help fend off the rambunctious Secretary. "We can't be sending in helicopters with a big U.S.A. painted on them in red, white and blue," the diplomats argued. Bennett put on that slightly bemused, slightly menacing look that he gets before combat, and replied, "Then paint the hammer and sickle on them...