Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being the U.N., staff economists find it hard to question the word of member governments, and even harder to check up on nonmember Peking. Western observers clustered in Hong Kong, however, were frankly skeptical of the U.N. findings. All along they were suspicious of Peking's 1958 claims and even more leery of Peking's blithe boast that in 1959 production would go up another 40%. Red China's government is now reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai...
...condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government will employ the moral suasion of the Comite de Defense des Interets Nationaux, led by ascetic young army officers, government workers and officials of the royal household. The villages are to be purified by the means...
Confronted with any number of good causes to spend money on, appalled by the swift obsolescence of military hardware, even faintly hoping that a cold war thaw might resolve the question. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government delayed for months a $350 million decision: whether to replace the outmoded Sabre day fighters flown by eight of Canada's twelve NATO squadrons in Europe. Ottawa's long irresolution spurred a mild rash of public and private talk that Canada should spend the money on aid to underdeveloped nations instead-to the extent that a discomfited Diefenbaker, while collecting...
...waning hours before the curtain, carpenters hustled about frantically shoring up scenery. But on opening night, Puccini's grand old horse opera went off with scarcely a hitch, moved a capacity audience to reverberating applause. The heroes of the evening, in the eyes of Director Graf, were without question the Western quarter horses. "They don't sing, they don't argue, they take directions," said he, "and they act very well...
...chatter it was easy to forget the one question that matters to every man: How do I myself feel about the picture? Shock and confusion would not be surprising reactions; they occur as naturally as before the coruscating words of John of Patmos: "I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God. and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...