Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible to ask him [Acheson] or any other nominee precisely what policies he will pursue, because he or any other nominee will pursue whatever policies are directed by the President. Only the President himself can answer the question, and the answer may sometimes be quite impromptu and unpredictable. We cannot control foreign policy through our action on this or any other nominee. I want to make that plain. Therefore, it should be made wholly obvious that we do not underwrite the results, in terms of foreign policy, which will flow from our confirmation of this or any other nominee...
...there was no question that after a decade of easy selling, many executives are finding themselves in a strange new world. As Randolph Hyde, treasurer of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., pointed out, probably half of them, having come to the top in an easy-selling, war-boom decade, were "without true competitive experience." They were getting it fast...
...Larry in uniform, they find something to believe in for the first time. Afterwards Neil stays in the Army out of cynicism and lack of direction, and Larry, his publishing house completely taken over by Communists, joins him in simple despair. The book ends on Larry's bewildered question: "What are we doing here...
Pond, who as Agent of the Class of '21, collects money from the Class for the Harvard Fund, said yesterday that the University has suffered "to the tune of a good many thousands of dollars" from "general alumni reaction on this pink question...
...marks are not sufficiently "heavy, glossy, and black" for the machine and secretaries in the testing office have to go over the marks by hand. "We check each paper anyway to make sure that it was marked correctly by the student and we erase all the answers to a question if we find more than one has been made," one of Dyer's assistants remarked...