Word: whether
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course Spokesman Ross was sidestepping the issue, as his press conference well knew. Whether newsmen qualified as "intimates" or not, Harry Truman had obviously gotten the same impression as many another politico: as long as Ike looked like a candidate, talked like a candidate and acted like a candidate he might as well be tagged...
...next month, 58-year-old Admiral Denfeld added, he would advise the Pentagon whether he chose to retire (after 41 years in a Navy uniform) or stay on active duty, "in any assignment ... in which the handicaps imposed by recent events will not be present...
Western observers, who had been closely watching the evolution of the Moscow-Peking Axis (TIME, Dec. 19)-and who had spent a lot of time wondering whether or not Mao might turn Tito and break with Moscow-could only speculate about the consequences of the Moscow meeting. All the West knew with certainty last week was that the two most successful living Communists, masters of almost a quarter of the earth's land and more than a quarter of its people, had met, and that both were sworn enemies of the West. That was quite enough to know...
...This week the Knesset held its first session in the Jewish Agency building of Jerusalem's New City. Most of the government started functioning in Jerusalem. But shrewd Ben-Gurion left his Foreign Ministry behind in Tel Aviv, sparing foreign diplomatic missions the embarrassment of having to decide whether or not to follow the Israel government to its new capital...
...size and completeness make it a valuable source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...