Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Less Freely." It was a blunt question and, by diplomatic standards, it got a blunt, affirmative answer. Replied Acheson: "There is something in this treaty that requires every member of the Senate, if you ratify it, when he comes to vote on military assistance, to exercise his judgment less freely than he would have exercised it if there had not been this treaty...
Washed Out. When the question of cancellation came up, he wrote, "I started to give my opinion, but before I had talked more than a minute you advised me that you had another appointment and would discuss this matter with me at a later date." He next heard of the matter five days later, Sullivan said, when he was told by a long-distance telephone call that Johnson had washed out the whole carrier project...
...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...mind, but the few finished pictures he did produce were apt to be dim, moody echoes of the Renaissance masters. In view of all this, many an art critic wondered if he could be considered a true painter at all. When Novelist Gertrude Stein once put that harsh question to him, Berard fell on his knees protesting, "Yes, oh, yes!" Last week, a Manhattan gallery staged a posthumous show of his portraits that helped to tip the decision a little in Bébé's favor...
...Reporters Luce and Hadden finished blueprinting their plans for TIME which they had begun in earnest at Camp Jackson. By stock subscriptions ranging from $500 to $20,000, they raised $86,000 and launched TIME with a staff of 25, including, says Author Busch, "three muddleheaded debutantes." The question whether Hadden or Luce was responsible for TIME, Busch concludes, "was as idle as a controversy about whether it is the steel or the flint that produces fire. Both were responsible...