Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, Miss Steinert has been devoted to Petrillo-as a news source. A former member of an opera company, she appreciates a good performance, which he gives, and she has always been able to get a direct answer from him to a direct question. This time Petrillo came through in style on both counts. He had played hard-to-get when he learned that he was to be the cover subject, but the entire Chicago staff descended on him and Petrillo, who can take a production as well as give one, croaked "Ya got me outnumbered" and gave down...
...China] is under preparation for early submission. Two weeks have now passed since the beginning of the regular session of the Congress. No proposal for aid to China has yet been submitted to the Congress by the Department of State. . . . The good faith of the Administration . . . is now in question. . . . Only the immediate submission to the Congress of a proposal for the protection of the vital interest of the American people in Chinese independence can create confidence . . . and give us an adequate opportunity to carefully consider an aid program. I should appreciate early word from...
Ironically, the argument touched a question of tough professional pride. How old did you have to be to get into the Algoa Reformatory near Jefferson City, a place for even tougher guys? As the words grew angrier, one of the boys grabbed Rolland Barton, 15, from behind, crooked one arm around his neck and held on for ten minutes. When the body grew limp, he and the third boy tossed it on the bunk, tore strips from a blanket and cinched them around their victim's neck to finish the job. In a final fury they showered blows...
...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
Does he think Treasure is his best work to date? The question is virtually meaningless to him. He says, drily and without self-consciousness: "It is as a picturemaker would have...