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Word: questioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just such stuff, and the unsupported malice of gossipy neighbors who reported that the couple across the hall liked to run around in the nude, read the New Republic and entertain Negroes? In a nation where nobody loves a cop, much less a snooper or an informer, the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Castor Oil. Put this way, as it often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...winter long, while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I Just Want to Go Home | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...only used words accurately, they would begin to think accurately, and the world would be that much better off. Last week, some 250 of Korzybski's disciples gathered at the University of Denver for the third Congress on General Semantics (and the first since 1941). Their big question: "Have we made any progress since the last congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always Either-Or | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...desperation, Acting Mayor Christopher wired the U.S. Embassy at Oslo: "Would the [Norwegian] government [object] to her appearance at a public concert in Norway?" It was a moot question: Flagstad has not sung in Norway since the war, and just last week the government brought suit to confiscate the estate of her husband, who had died before he could be tried for collaboration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Our Culture Is at Stake | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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