Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saragat's answer was the one he has made ever since the merger was first discussed: "Unification cannot date from the elections but only from Nenni's break with the Communists." Saragat carried the day, but only by a narrow margin. Then, drawn and ailing-he has a serious hyperthyroid condition-he headed off for a month's rest in the mountains. Behind him he left a party frozen in factionalism and no longer able to capitalize on its greatest electoral appeals-the useful services it performed during the years when its leaders held high office...
...plants, the workers good-naturedly sipped maté in the spring sunshine or played sand-lot soccer. As the strike dragged on, soldiers took over buses, and society women, made change in subway booths. Tacks thrown into streets halted 90 buses and a fire engine on its way to answer a fire alarm; a Molotov cocktail was tossed against a bus. But at strike's end most workers went quietly back to work...
Folks who have wondered how neutral a neutralist can get got an ultimate answer from India's Jawaharlal Nehru. In a fantastic bit of purblind observation, the Great Neutral assured a worried world: "People who talk about Communist revolutions are-if I may say so-out of date. So-called international Communism does not really exist today...
...problem posed to Architect Saarinen in planning the center was far from simple. He had to design a monumental building of many uses that would at the same time be the gateway to a park and the lakefront symbol of the city. His answer was to keep the main floor open, se that a visitor entering from the upper level, off Lincoln Memorial Drive, can see through to the lake beyond, thus providing a visual link between city and lake. To give the building sweep and drama, he designed soaring, 30-ft. cantilevers for the upper stories, which house meeting...
...Mark x428Fy, she had noticed a small piece of paper protruding from the slot on the collar. Curious, she pulled it out and read: "Whoever you are, I love the way you press my shirts. I think I may love you too. Interested?" She blushed, but daringly wrote her answer--"Interested, sorta," and slipped it in the collar-slot. Ten days later came another shirt from x428Fy and, sure enough, another note: "If you can cook like you can write I may be smitten beyond recall. Fascinated?" This time she almost swooned, and wrote back, "Wow, am I!" Anyhow, note...