Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting on the progress of the President's loyalty program, Attorney General Tom C. Clark declared that 2,110,521 Government employees had been found loyal beyond question. The status of 6,344 employees-about one-third of 1%-had needed further investigation by the FBI. By latest count, 883 of these had resigned rather than face a loyalty-board hearing. Forty-four were cases of mistaken identity-the accused just happened to have the same names as subversive suspects not employed by the Government. In the 1,092 cases acted on by loyalty boards, 59 employees have been...
This week, as the Moscow-Berlin-Paris negotiations over the German crisis sputtered to a horrifying stop, men & women everywhere shared a common question: How close...
...rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, barrooms, the question was asked a million times. Britain, which has recently looked upon the U.S. as somewhat hysterical about the danger of war, was swept by a wave of alarm-but not of panic. The London Daily Mirror reported the British people as "calmly bewildered and apprehensively steady." The phrase was very British, but it described the attitude of the Western world in general. The West was braced for a blow-and it wanted desperately to know whether the blow was likely to come soon, or whether it might be postponed a year...
...boom about over? After a summer lull in public speculation, the pundits took up the question again...
What kills the passengers when an airplane crashes? to the nonscientific layman, that question might seem on a par with "What causes death to the fly when a flyswatter mashes it?'' But the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory was interested in the scientific, not the commonsensible answer. If there is no fire, the Cornell investigators decided, the leading cause of death is cracked skulls. So the laboratory, backed by the Navy, set out to learn how a human skull cracks, and how to prevent it. Last week the experimenters described some of their findings...