Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Narrow Edge. Acheson handled a barrage of questions with firmness and relaxed good, humor. When a question was too technical, he was quick to admit that the questioner had gone over the narrow edge of his knowledge. A reporter pointed out that some "leading Republican papers" had inferred that "there has been some injury to bipartisan foreign policy." Acheson reddened slightly, and smiled. Was he looking at the injury? Acheson inquired amiably. The newsmen laughed, and the reporter backtracked hastily: "It was their insinuation, not mine." Well, said Acheson, he would do everything he could to keep the most bipartisan...
...only question was whether the dream would come true, and in all details...
...read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded him and Mao said: "Though it will interfere with my own study program, I will attend classes on one condition: If I ask a question a teacher cannot answer, will you fire him?" The principal pressed Mao no further...
...heard an eager question...
...Question. Many a music lover-especially if he was a ticketholder-could not decide which angered him more: Pianist Gieseking's political record, or the way the U.S. Government had handled him. If Gieseking had been a Nazi sympathizer-and the evidence seemed to show that he once was-why had he been given a visa in the first place? In the second place, why had the Justice Department given him the bum's rush after the State Department had cleared him? The Washington Post asked an even bigger question: "How long are Americans going to deny...