Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovered from the first blow, they were struck another. Eghbal introduced a second bill requiring all government officials, civil or military, to file an inventory of their movable and immovable properties, as well as those of their wives and children. If any should make false statements or refuse to answer, their properties would be confiscated by the government. The idea, he explained, is to "chuck out all corrupt officials." And he promised future bills, probably including a long overdue one for limiting land ownership in Iran and breaking up the vast feudal properties. Why was the Shah doing this...
...power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...
Last week the Senate summoned Rojas to appear and defend himself. In answer, Rojas issued a defiant communique: "I cannot recognize this farce, conceived in hate, vengeance and vain haughtiness." As the hour of his appointment with the Senate passed, a few followers in the town house tried to convince Rojas that the glorious days of power would return. "Mi general," shouted one, "the people are with you." Rojas smiled, nodded and hugged himself: "I am enveloped in the constitution...
...seemed most likely that the answer lay in stress, or more precisely, the reaction to stress. Many of the Haitians were even poorer than their South Carolina counterparts, but if they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...
...first part of the symposium which was devoted to a more general discussion of drama criticism, Norton suggested three questions that the critic should answer: "What is the playwright trying to do, has he done it, and was it worth doing in the first place...