Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, each witness produced a statement. Chairman Thomas gave it a hasty, belligerent look and almost without exception refused to admit it. Then Committee Counsel Robert Stripling fired the two questions: "Are you a member of the Screen Writers' Guild?" "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah...
...asked if she could help electioneer. Since then, she has seldom left Cripps's side. Tall, blue-eyed, with fluffy, grey hair, Lady Cripps's vivacity helps melt his icy public front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really can't ask that," or "Sorry, but that's Cabinet policy." At last Lady Cripps broke in: "Now, Papa, why can't you be more human...
...Delicate Question. Forewarned of trouble. TIME Correspondent André Laguerre got there early. He cabled...
...Gaulle is a great Frenchman, but he means trouble. De Gaulle always means trouble for France. I don't know if he makes trouble, or if he is just there when trouble comes. It is a delicate question. Tonight we shall have some trouble. But I am not going home until I have sold my chestnuts...
...does a cancer behave differently from normal tissue? At Yale University's Medical School, a lanky, greying pathologist named Harry Sylvestre Nutting Greene is looking for an answer to this basic question...