Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much of the confusion about the missile gap results from changes in the meaning of the term. It figures in debate in at least three different senses: 1) a gap in missile technology, 2) a gap in present missile capability, and 3) a gap in future capability. The answer to a question about the missile gap depends upon which meaning the questioner has in mind...
...Plateau. The Administration's answer is a plain, firm no. With its primary force of nuclear-armed bombers and fighter-bombers, plus its soon-to-come secondary force of offensive missiles, the U.S. can already, in the blunt words of a high Pentagon official, "destroy everything." The problem is not to increase that overwhelming destructive power ("overkill" in Pentagonese), but to keep modernizing the means of delivery so as to stay ahead of Soviet defense capabilities. As newer means of delivering nuclear punch are "phased in"-so runs Administration thinking-older means can be "phased out." Total destructive power...
...answer, shrugged it off: Anybody who tries to steer a course down the middle of the road, he said, has "got to take it from both sides...
...time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last week turned down his bid for asylum, and he got no answer to a feeler...
Cafeteria operation with a wide selection of food will be included in the recommendations, Stewart said. "Some days if you know one item on the menu, you can guess the whole meal," he added. "This survey will answer many questions that have come up in the past," remarked Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department...