Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British were known to be hesitant about breaking off the talks with Molotov. The key to the situation was the question of whether the airlift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) could continue, throughout the winter, to feed, warm and hold Berlin. That crucial question General Clay answered last week with a clear yes. He said he was sure that the airlift could not only provide Western Berlin with its necessities but sustain its economic life at pre-blockade level. With the possible exception of two tough winter months, he was convinced that "Operation Vittles" could be extended to flying in raw materials...
Atomic Crusaders. The Assembly's formal agenda was loaded with 69 items, ranging from genocide and atomic control to the question of a U.N. postal service and the status of Russian wives of Chilean diplomats...
...third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit, has done it a third time. The English have...
Noting that "Dr. Lee de Forest, one of radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...
...Lawn Tennis Association. In last week's national amateur tennis championships at Forest Hills, Davis Cuppers Parker, Talbert and Mulloy were seeded first, second and third. Young (25) Victor Seixas of the University of North Carolina filed a popular demurrer. Said he: "It's no longer a question of when the younger generation is going to arrive. We're here, brother...