Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soft Answer. Soft-voiced Louis St. Laurent tried to get off an effective reply, but his first, dignified answers were no match for Drew's slashing style. Then St. Laurent unsheathed the Liberals' ultimate weapon: "The government is prepared to go to the people at any time on this issue." Only this week did he start cutting George Drew down to size...
...only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the immigration office. There, by his account, he was confronted with "five newspaper articles . . . criticizing me . . . I could not answer immediately, since much of the material I needed was in Europe. I was told that a decision on my case would take four to six weeks. I didn't want to spend that time at Ellis Island, so I asked to be permitted to take the next plane...
...most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve an artistic resolution than it can supply a practical answer. As realism, it also suffers a good deal from very seldom seeming real. Author Reines is always too conscious of his social issues, too ready with a speech. What is most disastrous of all, the actual writing is far too often inept...
After the P.O.A.U. conference ended, a Roman Catholic spokesman made a fast reply. Said Msgr. John Spence, director of education for the Washington (D.C.) archdiocese, in answer to Bishop Oxnam's speech...
...years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...