Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
Many years before the birth of the science of genetics, the chromosomes had been observed behaving in this way, but no one knew why they did. Genetics supplied the answer. Reduction division is a kind of lottery that deals the fertilized egg half a set of chromosomes from each parent, like cards dealt out to players in a two-handed card game. When maternal and paternal chromosomes are slightly different, which is generally the case, their dominant genes (units of heredity) suppress recessive genes, as Mendel's red-flowered peas suppressed white-floweredness. Each recessive gene is still riding...
...18th century painted decoration was the order of the day on everything from royal carriages to commoners' chamber pots. Has the time come to revive the tradition? Suggesting that the answer is yes, Paris' swank Galerie Charpentier last week had on display ten brand-new refrigerators decorated by ten top Paris painters. The show, called "The Nobility of the Everyday Object," was billed by Poet-Painter Jean Cocteau as "a victory over the negative style of emptiness." Said Jours de France: "The most bizarre show of the year...
...Dresden, Topping, as a "guest," was allowed to lead the way inside, came suddenly face to face with the nine American prisoners. Some were dressed, some were in underwear, and all were obviously startled to find they had visitors. Before any loaded question could be asked or rash answer given, Topping quickly dug his Defense Department credentials card from his hip pocket, flashed it before the eyes of his suspicious compatriots and said: "Topping, Associated Press. May I see your senior officer?" Out of the group stepped Major George Kemper. Topping, a World War II infantry captain, promptly warned...
...quickly evident that Kemper had no idea the Communists were using the Americans as hostages to pressure the State Department into recognition of the East German government. When Topping asked permission to present the facts of the case to Kemper so he could answer questions intelligently, he was cut off with: "No statements." But a Communist official promptly made a statement of his own: "The German Democratic Republic is making no political conditions for your release. It is the American side that is making the conditions...