Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was carefully phrased. Had Alger Hiss or his wife ever turned over any Government documents to Whittaker Chambers? In a hushed room in New York's federal courthouse, Alger Hiss, onetime State Department official, listened to the question. Outside, a wet snow was falling on the city. Hiss, the man with the impeccable background, answered: "Never...
...copies were an indictment based specifically on the two questions and the two answers given by Hiss late that afternoon. Behind the two questions lay weeks of effort to get at the salient question: Who was lying when Chambers stated and Hiss denied that Hiss had been a spy in the service of the Soviet...
...compose a sentence containing a dependent clause. "Our cat had ten kittens," said Istvan, "of which all were Communists." "Excellent," said the teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were all Communist." "I know," said Istvan, "but since then their eyes have opened...
...dominant quality of De Havil-land's Virginia is the contrast between her madness and the pretty, still-young face. In her case, insanity seems as" incongruous as in Ophelia's. This quality gives her entire performance the profound sadness of Laertes' question: . . . Is't possible a young maid's wits should be as mortal as an old man's life...
Everyone knows that business profits are high. Are they too high? To this short, explosive question, a Senate subcommittee, weighing the pros & cons of an excess profits tax, last week got some long-winded and contradictory answers...