Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination (like that of the world) had been caught by something he obviously did not fully understand. What a world organization might do was obviously worth all the nickels (and all the zlotys, francs, rupees and dollars) ever minted. That, however, was another question, and one frequently confused with what the United Nations was actually doing. Was it worth Sammy's nickel...
...police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato of old; [like the] Trojan horse; [like a] Walpurgis Night...
...morning of the wedding, the linotyper, on his way home from work, paused amid the happy, shabby throngs. He answered a question, musingly: "I'm a good trade unionist and a Labor Party man, but the royal family means something. My father saw Victoria once, as close as you and me are now. Those two are getting married-they carry it on. I suppose it's having something steady in your life. And God knows there isn't much that's steady these days...
...battle against the church may not come for years, until the Communists have consolidated everything else. Poland's Communist President Bierut has stated that the question of whether the present religious freedom will be continued "depends on the attitude of the clergy; on whether they will accept the state of things existing in Poland...
Under the watchful eyes of steel-helmeted police, the world's oldest university began its 1,006th academic year in Cairo last week. The cops were just a precaution in a land hot over the Palestine question: the 11,000 students at Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University take their politics as seriously as their Moslem faith. It is not just boyish prankishness either; some of the "undergrads" have been going to school for 15 or 20 years...