Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S reproductions of various Louvre masterpieces, with the usual glowing tributes to the great masters, raise this question: Why does no one ever dare point to the incredible ineptitude displayed by painters who clothe their Bible-era subjects in contemporary Italian Renaissance costumes? Are critics as charitable to painters of the 19505 who produced a crucifixion scene with Roman soldiers in U.S. paratrooper garb and with either Mary in a sack dress with a poodle haircut...
...passed. "Well," said Casey, clarifying things, "you can retire with an annuity at 50, and I further state that I am not a member of that plan. You'd think, my goodness, why not, and him 48 years in baseball." "I'm not sure I made my question clear," said the Keef, doubtfully. "I would say that I wouldn't know," droned Stengel again, "but I imagine to keep baseball going as high as baseball is a sport that has gone into baseball from the baseball answer." Murmured defeated Senator Kefauver, changing the subject...
...miles away before an aging villa in Dresden, Topping, as a "guest," was allowed to lead the way inside, came suddenly face to face with the nine American prisoners. Some were dressed, some were in underwear, and all were obviously startled to find they had visitors. Before any loaded question could be asked or rash answer given, Topping quickly dug his Defense Department credentials card from his hip pocket, flashed it before the eyes of his suspicious compatriots and said: "Topping, Associated Press. May I see your senior officer?" Out of the group stepped Major George Kemper. Topping, a World...
...Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture poses: Who is faster on The Draw? Nobody seems to know the answer to the most important question: Why is Robert Taylor, a man of considerable general culture, content to spend most of his working hours grubbing around in the bottom of the oatbin...
...jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure of U.S. history was Union General Milton Smith Littlefield. In this book, North Carolina Author (A Southerner Discovers the South) and Editor (Raleigh News and Observer) Jonathan Daniels offers a tantalizing answer to the question of what Littlefield was really like...