Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsavory connections with hoodlums, the tone changed. Wary of the pitfalls of wiretaps whose contents he could not foretell, Hoffa began to get the kind of amnesia that hoods have long resorted to-before the era of the Fifth Amendment. To every implicating question there came an equivocating answer, or a variety of dazzling disclaimers, e.g., "to the best of my recollection," "I just don't remember," "I don't recall." Listening to this performance for hours, even easy-going Irving Ives exploded. Shooting a grumpy glance down his nose at Hoffa, the New York Senator snorted that...
Last January "Handsome Frank" Brewster, longtime king of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' fearsome West Coast goon squads, refused to answer the questions of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on the grounds that it was exceeding its authority. Cited for contempt of Congress, the Teamsters' Vice President Brewster, goon companion of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, claimed that he had purged himself by later appearing before the special McClellan committee and telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank...
...makers to find more financing in a tight-money market. Said Boeing's President William M. Allen: "This belt-tightening had to come, and it is high time that the industry and the nation faced up to actualities. The public thinks there is too much defense; the only answer is austerity...
...answer seems to be that Congress was too quick to 1) expand the system to cover more workers and 2) boost the benefits without waiting to get the bill for past increases. For example, in 1954 Congress voted to let self-employed farmers retire at 65 if they paid Social Security taxes for only two years. Thus, for $252 a farmer could buy a pension of $108.50 a month for life (if single) or $162.50 a month (if married). Thousands of agile farmers came out of retirement to farm for two years in order to become eligible for benefits, then...
...summer idyl cannot last and that by fall he must lead his tribe back to its winter grazing grounds, to face the 20th century in the shape of the modern Persian army. Then, to fight or not to fight, that is the question to which Ghazan desperately seeks an answer...