Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown: "This is the first question: angle A of the triangle ABC is 40 degrees and angle B is 60 degrees. How many degrees in angle...
Andrews: "Please repeat the question...
Andrews (flustered): "I think I would flunk that question...
Last week the accomplishments of the occupation, which had seemed to go so well in its first phase, were being called in question as never before. Its aims, which had seemed so clear and simple under the Potsdam Declaration, had apparently shifted under MacArthur's feet. Once people had asked: "How are we going to hold Japan down?" Now they were asking: "How are we going to hold her up?"-meaning, how are we going to prevent economic collapse and make this floundering, bewildered country economically stable and self-sufficient...
...this question caused him inner perplexity, Douglas MacArthur gave no outward sign. A new advisory commission-known as the Deconcentration Review Board-had just arrived from Washington to study part of the question for him. Their indoctrination had begun at a lunch with MacArthur himself. Now they were being crammed with facts, figures and prophecies by SCAP's bright young men. Their job might keep them in Tokyo for months...