Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story about six men in a boat. When the boat capsized, another small boat came to the rescue, but lacked room to take all six aboard. "Can you float alone?" a rescuer called to a man still in the water. "Yes," he yelled, "but why should you raise a question of business at this time?" Added Rockefeller: "This is my feeling about politics-at this time...
...first muted outcries came when the Assembly jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
...Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring the U.N. ruling and the verdict of two Arab-Israeli wars, shouted: "The question of free passage through the Suez Canal is an aspect of the Palestine question"-i.e., the continued existence of Israel...
...membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real influence over the next government if the Tories and the Socialists wound up in a near draw. The real question was whether what votes they got in the marginal constituencies would be "stolen" from Labor or the Tories. The pundits' tentative guess: more from Labor...
...Greek passions over Cyprus as a lever with which to overturn the Athens government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis. Last week, driven to plain talk, Makarios publicly said as much. "From the moment Grivas decided to enter Greek politics," declared the Archbishop, "he did not see the Cyprus question with a clear eye." But plainly worried that Cyprus' hard-won independence settlement might be endangered by Grivas' demagoguery, Makarios also began seriously considering a closed-door meeting with the fiery general to seek a truce. His only hesitation: the danger that by so doing, he might focus public attention...