Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been up against intrying to get the news of Russia's satellite Balkan countries. During arecent meeting with a Western-educated top official of one of the satellites, they talked in normal conversational idiom until Low asked a leading political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon your line of questioning or go away, because you know...
...standards of social justice and decency, the rise in working-class incomes may be approved-certainly the majority of Britons approve it. But approval does not answer the question: Where is the money coming from to replace capital equipment as it wears out? Less & less of it will come from investment by the gradually impoverished middle class, and this will certainly not be balanced by more & more capital investment from the rising working class. The new income of the working class will not go into capital goods; it will go into more milk, more education, more dentures...
...Dominican, Father Felix Morlion, who challenged Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti to a debate over Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Togliatti sent a substitute, Communist Senator Ottavio Pastore. When Pastore was through, Father Morlion quietly mounted the rostrum beneath a huge portrait of Togliatti and smilingly proceeded to answer the Senator's ranting. "To conquer misery," Father Morlion concluded, "it is not necessary to suppress religion...
...most favored theories: that it was revenge for the recent expulsion of suspected Communists from Chosen Christian College; that the Communists had mistaken Mrs. Underwood for her guest of honor, a Korean woman noted for her pro-United Nations activities. One high U.S. official thought he had the answer: "If the Communists are looking for a way to make Americans distrust and dislike Koreans, they could find no better one than to kill this good American woman...
...there definitely is nothing left to say; except that somebody just walked in and wanted to know if Mary Martin was really that good. The answer...