Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stems directly from the Supreme Court decisions last year in the cases of New Mexico Lawyer Rudolph Schware, who had been denied a license to practice law because of previous Communist membership, and of California Lawyer Raphael Konigsberg, who was refused admission to the bar because he refused to answer questions about past Communist associations. The court ordered a license issued to Schware and that Konigsberg be admitted...
...lire for a closeup of the queen herself. "For only 5,000 lire more," a gold-toothed, top-hatted elder told an Italian reporter, "you may touch the queen's hand and ask her anything you wish. Of course, we cannot guarantee that she will answer...
...disagreements that plague nations, few are quite so exasperating as the question: How far out to sea can a country claim territorial jurisdiction? When the 1930 Hague Codification Conference failed to find an answer, the world was left with a crazy-quilt situation in which some nations claimed a three-mile territorial sea limit, others claimed four, six, ten, twelve, 200, or all the water covering the continental shelf. Last week in Geneva an 86-nation U.N Law of the Sea Conference finished more than two months of meetings on the subject, and put the question to a vote...
...Idyll, a nine-year-old girl is picked up by a charming psychopath who has escaped from a mental hospital. Why would a youngster living in a peaceful English village with devoted, decent parents find such an acquaintance rewarding? The answer lies in a bracketed look at 1) the parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part...
...Radcliffe Yard last week, one girl was approached by a man inquiring the name of the adjacent street. Before she could answer, the man snatched her purse and ran away. The purse contained no money and was found yesterday on Acacia St., with the belongings untouched...