Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that the question of whether or not there would be a summit conference had become almost academic; at their Camp David talks (TIME, March 30), President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan had set into motion a march to the summit that could be diverted only by complete Soviet obduracy. As of last week, the basic problem was no longer one of getting to the summit. Rather, it was one of reconciling viewpoints so as to make absolutely certain that the West presents a united front once the summit is reached...
...President de Gaulle. That stout friend of Konrad Adenauer insisted that enmity between Germans and French no longer exists, and that France endorses West Germany's drive for reunification of today's two Germanys. But then he added carefully, "provided they do not reopen the question of their present frontiers to the west, the east, the north and the south." These were the strongest words ever used by a Western leader in favor of setting Germany's eastern boundary at the Oder-Neisse...
...game-adapted from a 1953-55 radio show-pairs two colleges, each with four-student teams. Quizmaster Allen Ludden, 41, a sometime writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives...
...those activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually and spiritually." Asked to define justice, he quoted Justinian-"Render to each his due"-and Mortimer J. Adler-"Treat equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to their inequality." Occasionally, Adler is stumped by a reader's question...
...with a young daughter as housekeeper; he hopes that the child's presence will lure the murderer. Matthäi's stubborn faith leads to a long wait, during which he turns to liquor, degenerates both physically and mentally. The murderer does not appear. And yet the question of whether or not Matthäi was right, after all, keeps the reader in suspense...