Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court reversed the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Labor Organizer John Watkins, who had refused to answer Communists-I-have-known questions put to him by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1954, and in so doing, the Chief Justice, as voice of the court's majority, gave congressional investigators a narrowed field to work in-how much narrowed only future decisions will tell...
...witness of straightforward manner, he testified that he had never been a card-carrying Communist. But he admitted that from 1942 to 1947 he had cooperated with Communists "to such a degree that some persons may honestly believe that I was a member of the party." He agreed to answer all questions about his own participation in Communist affairs. He would even name those whom he believed still to be Communists. But Witness Watkins firmly and flatly drew the line at identifying old associates "who to my best knowledge and belief have long since removed themselves from the Communist movement...
...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...
...turned this specter loose in the Communist world? The answer seemed to be that Mao was primarily concerned with solving the strains and stresses created by Red China's grave economic difficulties-and perhaps was trying to prevent a Hungarian-style outbreak in his own land...
...down for the good of the two-party system. A Liberal in Ottawa who voted Tory summed up a common Liberal reaction: "I never dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that the time for a change had come...