Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these military minuses notwithstanding, the J.C.S. entertained no military question as to the single necessity of going into Lebanon. Adjusting the contingency war plans to the specifics of the hour, Chairman Nate Twining needed only a 90-minute run-through with the Chiefs before he was ready to report at a National Security Council meeting to the President of the U.S. "Nate," said one NSC observer, "knew exactly what ought to be done and what he could...
...named for reporters the U.S.'s best poet ("Ezra Pound"), said of his homeland: "All America is an insane asylum." With snatches of Water Boy, Basso Paul Robeson, 60, a well-heeled Marxist, flapped his brand-new passport aloft as he arrived in London for a concert tour. Question from newsmen: Is Paul in the Party? "I have a right to be a member of any party," said he obscurely. Well, would he like to say anything about Soviet antiSemitism? Boomed Robeson: "I will not discuss these questions today...
...look inside their [text] books. You would be amazed at the influence of Catholicism on American history. Jamestown and the Puritans are strictly underplayed; what counts is the early missionary activity. Even geography takes on Catholic overtones, and at our house we are still trying to answer one quiz question, 'Who discovered St. Anthony's Falls...
...Where the hell else but in America could you have a cheerful nihilism?" asks a leading character in this highly diverting book, which is a comedy with a tragic ending and, occasionally, a farce with a philosophical meaning. The character who asks the question is Joe Morgan, a history teacher at Wicomico State Teachers College, who has taught himself to "say good-by to objective values." He believes that energy is "what makes the difference between American pragmatism and French existentialism...
...fact that her divorced mother has remarried. Stepfather Andrew Wells is the sort of pipe-smoking, tweedy adult to make a Radciiffe girl's heart do nip-ups. To complete the idyl, there are two other men: Chris, a callow college graduate; and Chadburn, a hesitant illustrator. The question: Who will get Sally? The answer: nearly everybody...