Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question-on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week...
...virtual elimination of the Communists from the National Assembly meant a welcome end to the Red log-jamming that has plagued every French Parliament since World War II. All the same, the makeup of the new Assembly prompted many a Frenchman to echo the question posed by Le Monde: "Is the bride too beautiful...
Machine Creation. Many of the speakers tackled the question: "What is intelligence?" None of them had a wholly satisfactory answer. Dr. Marvin L. Minsky of M.I.T. felt that the problem is unduly complicated by irrational human reverence for human intelligence. "We can often find simple machines," he said, "which exhibit performances that would be called intelligent if done by a man. We are, understandably, very reluctant to confer this dignity on an evidently simple machine...
...middle ten days of November took their steepest climb of the year to an average of 16,200 a day, about equal to November 1957. Since dealers so far have been handicapped by shortages, automen regard this as the first real test of the auto market, the biggest question mark in the 1959 economy. The Chase Manhattan Bank predicted sales of 5,500,000 to 6,500,000 cars. "Six million or more," it said, "would support a vigorous expansion of the entire economy...
Already Odysseus has begun to question, to doubt. To his surprise, he begins to find newborn sympathies with slaves and common folk. The old Greek gods have become objects of scorn, and what started as a mindless search for adventure has now become a journey of selfdiscovery. In Egypt he and his pals thieve and loot, fight against the depraved rulers and finally lead a ragged army to the headwaters of the Nile. There Odysseus builds a Utopian city-state in which marriage is outlawed, children are held in common, and the old and weak are left...