Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
Reluctant to answer directly to questions about their relation to the Arab countries of the middle east, and cagey about the prospect of accepting Red China's arms, the two Algerians showed themselves students of politics, diplomacy, and intrigue. They were asked the same cautious questions on each campus, questions about the governmental and disciplinary structure of a post-war Algeria; fears about reprisals against the colonials, and about possible Communist influence in the Algerian freedom front. When their own turn came to ask questions, the Algerians showed their awareness of American affairs. They were disturbed mainly by the proviso...
Although Long told the Council he was not prepared to answer questions, he replied to several specific inquiries. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who again labelled the proposal "a fantasy," asked when the project might get under way. Long repied that it would be "in the future, a soon as possible...
Long also declined to answer DeGuglielmo's question as to whether MTA officials had been approached about the project, and in the face of further inquiries said "I claim the fifth dimension, or whatever you call...
...friend keep him. So the scriptwriter rings in Hero No. 2 (Widmark), a G.B.G. who develops into a G.G.G. and goes after the bad guys like a blackbird picking ticks off a cow. In the end, with the villains all gone, the heroes have nothing left to do but answer the all-important questions: 1) Who is faster on the draw? 2) Who is slower on the drawl...