Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians began with an air that was close to sweet reasonableness. Under the baiting of U.S. reporters, they ducked embarrassing questions ("That leads away from the question of peace"), or shrugged them off. In general, they seemed content to show themselves, prove that Russians were not monsters, declare their devotion to peace. Meanwhile they would let the Americans denounce the U.S. for them...
Though Communists had sometimes sneaked in behind this respectable façade and made Graham look a little silly, he himself still commanded the respect of many Southerners. Ohio's John Bricker last week brought up the old, discredited question of Graham's fitness to handle confidential information as an atomic adviser. The first Senator on his feet was North Carolina's conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth...
...question of a telephone call," said the bicycle man blandly. "I had thought we might need a lawyer and hoped that if someone heard the bell ringing he would call a lawyer...
There was one more question: "If the people themselves should demand your return to office, would you run for the presidency?" Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...
...high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot know, with...