Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible member of the U.S. Congress. Yet newsmen everywhere handled the charges gingerly. They were aware of the degeneration of the interservice squabbles into an eye-gouging finish fight. In the Pentagon, the security curtain clanked down abruptly. Worried staff officers warned inquiring newsmen not even to discuss the matter over the telephone, for fear of wiretapping. A stream of other rumors flooded through Washington...
...could not have picked a better man. A colleague once described Canadian-born Sir William, now 53, as "quiet, unassuming, inconspicuous-perfect for his work as a spy because you never notice him." Sir William's World War II work was so secret that he will still not discuss it, before the war he was just as unobtrusive, and influential, in British high finance. Settling down in England after a World War I stint as an airman, he soon had a finger in radio, gramophones, aviation, steel, real estate and construction (he built London's huge sports arena...
...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...reported by the Michigan C.I.O. News, Stricker told the subcommittee: "In this particular class that I attended, all the instructor did was to put percentages on the blackboard. I am sure that members of the class don't known arithmetic. Well, to discuss the Economic Report of President Truman with people who don't know how to count, they ought to teach them about the Constitution...
...days after the newsletter had gone out, Ashby called in three members of the newly-formed Student Action Committee and rebuked them for not sending the newsletter through the proper "channels," as requested. He told the students they had no right to discuss such "affairs of the administration...