Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of China, however, gave the new Secretary a chill and a high temperature. Fifty-one Republican Congressmen had written to President Truman, demanding clear answers to specific questions on current U.S. policy towards China. His bright yellow dispatch case bulging with documents, Secretary Acheson took his weary bones up to Capitol Hill for a closed session with the Republicans. When it was over, the Secretary, like Cardinal Wolsey, needed a little earth for charity. Minnesota's tireless Walter H. Judd, onetime China medical missionary, who believes that the U.S. could still save China from the Reds...
...present disturbed condition in the world, any normal question by a reporter arouses suspicion among lower officials of any government. I was stepping on somebody's toes [in Moscow]. I was making officials mad, [though] I thought I was doing them a favor. All countries have stupid officials and prosecutors who, once they have decided against you, go out to get their...
...question from the judge, Naumov denied that Bulgaria's state police had mistreated, beaten or "burned" him. Said he: "I advise all waverers to go to the state security people for re-education...
...Czechoslovakia, Communist Deputy Kapun strikingly echoed Nazi sentiments while discussing the question of returning Jewish property which the Nazis had stolen. (Despite promises, the Communists have returned only a fraction of such property.) Said Comrade Kapun: "Before the war, the Jews had Germanized themselves . . . We cannot trust their patriotism. The pot in which food was spoiled once smells bad even though it has been thoroughly cleansed...
Then anonymous letters began arriving in Portland and Salem newspaper offices. Here was a question of academic freedom, the letters hinted, which reporters should investigate. After that, the rumpus began. By last week, the firing of Chemist Ralph Spitzer and Economist L. R. La Vallee showed signs of becoming as celebrated as the recent dismissals at the University of Washington (TIME...