Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army tried to answer skeptics who feared that the RFA's would receive a "watered down" basic training, by giving RFA's the same eight week basic training as all other Army trainees. But it seemed to many this summer that RFA's should receive a different basic training from other men, not a less demanding one, but on the contrary, a more concentrated one. On the basis of what was actually learned, it was believed eight weeks was too much of the total training time, especially if one of the implied objectives of the program was to give...
From the start, the answer was obvious. On his second day, 3,000 Indians swarmed over the University of Delhi campus to see the prince get a D.Sc. They applauded his jokes ("I regret to say that all my degrees are honorary ones"), cheered wildly when he mentioned the last viceroy who so smoothly presided over the transition to independence, "that great friend of India, my uncle Lord Mountbatten." For all its years as a republic,* the land that struggled so hard for independence is still largely dominated by British ways, has not even bothered to take down the portraits...
Headlines v. Facts. The U.S. Secretary of State, anxious to avoid the appearance of keeping his mind closed to new avenues toward peace, had made a logical answer to an "or else'' question. What he said was not new: in the Sept. 30 note to Moscow, the U.S. had offered to discuss "any other proposals genuinely designed to insure the reunification of Germany in freedom." But what Dulles said in his news conference last week was presented in much of the press as a positive statement suggesting an important change in U.S. policy...
...growing form of radio journalism, used in the past on CBS's report on juvenile delinquency and on the Murphy-Galindez case. Despite its authenticity and immediacy, the trouble with such reporting is apt to be lack of evaluation. The Business of Sex raised but never attempted to answer the crucial question of whether the use of prostitutes in business is "an isolated phenomenon" or so widespread as to indicate "a general loosening of ethical conduct...
...place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint questions...