Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosecution's charges were "unmitigated bunk," a vicious libel. The Communists merely advocated socialism as the only valid answer to the abuses of fascist capitalism, the only way to peace, freedom and security. It was not Communism which taught violence, but the tottering capitalist class which advocated it in order to save itself. Communism advocated force only after a socialistic government had been peacefully set up-as a method of preventing a counterrevolution...
When he was appointed head of FAO in 1945 he called the new organization "the answer to the atomic bomb." In recent years he has sought a new answer in internationalism, became president of the Movement for World Federal Government and a sponsor of World Citizen Garry Davis (TIME...
While the Tories were planning in Empress Hall, Prime Minister Attlee huddled with Labor's top brass, pondering the question of whether to call a general election now or wait till next spring. Last week they got to an answer. As some observers had predicted (TIME, Oct. 10), the decision was to let things ride until spring. By that time, Labor hopes to repair some of the political damage which it suffered in the devaluation crisis. This week Attlee will put before Parliament a new economic program including reduction in government expenditures and other measures which, as Deputy Prime...
...left for work, the police would come. There would be two plain-clothes men, with a list of names supplied by the Ministry of the Interior, and a uniformed cop. They would ask for the head of the family (or perhaps a grown son). All they would say in answer to questions was that the man was to come with them and that he should bring warm clothes. Before they left they would take the license and papers of his car, and they would type a sample of his typewriter...
...There is no discrimination in the Harvard Cooperative Society." he proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...