Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
...need money, money and more money to get the organization rolling again," explained Illinois' Fred Virkus, a megaphone for the Colonel Bertie McCormick wing of the G.O.P. "But you are not going to get the money until you can answer the question, 'What does the Republican Party stand for?' in a way that everybody can understand...
Cianfarra's dispatch discreetly ducked the obvious question: Did Ingrid look as if she were an expectant mother in her sixth month? For a colleague, the Timesman had an answer: not at all. That at least threw some doubt on Louella's arithmetic...
...very length and heat of the Council debate show that reasonable men never agree on the methods of defeating prejudice. No one will question the motives of the Council; but it has acted unwisely in attempting to legislate against prejudice...
There is danger, also, that such a clause could be used as a restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. There is no question that discrimination is a bad thing; but against this particular method of combating it must be weighed the abridgement of freedom -- an abridgement which would set a precedent for the Council, or for University Hall, further to limit the membership, actions, or purposes of student groups. There are too many such regulations...