Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon: When we can agree on disarmament with adequate inspection, then we can talk about the question of bases. Now I'd like to ask you a question...
Reported the McClure Newspaper Syndicate's Trendex Poll, after sampling opinion while Nixon was in Russia: "Nixon's presidential prospects have been increased tremendously by his Russian visit." Replies to a standard Trendex question-"Do you think Richard Nixon or Nelson Rockefeller would get the most votes for the Presidency as the nominee of the Republican Party?"-showed a phenomenal Nixon upsurge...
Replied Minnesota's spectacled Walter Judd: "The question is what is to happen in our nation's interest. Sometimes we act as if we were not at war-and in the most perilous situation in which the U.S. has ever been-partly because it does not look like war. Therefore we do not go all out to do the things necessary...
...pastime in which many people love to indulge is the argumentation that arises from the question, "If you were marooned alone on an island for a long time and could have only one such-and-such, which one would you choose?" Were I confronted with such a choice from the complete plays of Shakespeare, I should pick Macbeth to have on my shipwrecked island (the wit would of course state a preference for The Tempest...
...error in question is a matter of just two words, but two important and crucial ones. Lady Macbeth is trying to overcome Macbeth's reluctance and to bolster his courage to murder Duncan. He protests, "If we should fail--," and she retorts with "We fail"--two words with at least three possible interpretations (each with more than one inflection): (1) "We fail?"; (2) "We fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must...