Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been required to comply with the law has been under the present Administration?" Goldfine: "That is correct." Asked for details of how he got John R. Steelman, of President Truman's White House staff, to wrangle approval on a $12 million RFC loan, Goldfine relished the answer: "I was more at the White House at that time than I was since Governor Sherman Adams was at the White House...
Despite the committee's threats to charge him with contempt of Congress for repetitive refusals to answer questions, Goldfine fired off a final blast against the "smear," chuckled at Counsel Robert Lishman's joking request: "Please leave me off your gift lists." "You can return it if you want," explained Goldfine, "and if you do, it will be the first time anyone did." After a final handshake with Chairman Harris, a final visit with Adams, Goldfine, surrounded by lawyers and press-agents, flew back to Boston...
...lead-action led to reaction, threat to counterthreat. The U.S. moved marines into Lebanon with no certainty that the marines could halt in Lebanon without being drawn into shooting, or whether it might be preferable to the Western world to buttress a counterattack on Iraq. At that moment the answer to a single key question was still hidden behind Iraq's censorship and sealed borders. Was there anything to save in Iraq? At midweek came the answer: no. That was the turning point...
...this, and for stationing 23 tanks on the approaches to the city, as if to guard it against the marines. "Where did these tanks come from?" Chamoun asked Shehab, who had in the past pleaded that he was powerless to chase the rebels to their lair. There was no answer...
...case, Donald Casey charged that 23-year-old Martha Sue Casey had boasted of intimate relations with his father. When Martha Sue denied it, her lawyer called to the stand the only available witness-the Rev. Mr. Glisson. Had she ever admitted such an intimacy? Pastor Glisson refused to answer, and Martha Sue's lawyer withdrew the question. But Donald's lawyer insisted on an answer. Refusing again, Glisson was slapped with a $50 fine and a ten-day suspended jail sentence for contempt of court by Circuit Judge John F. Kizer. The intimacy issue was vital...