Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...paraphrased the answer of von Ribbentrop (whose exact words were not made public): Germany could not understand why the U. S. had sent its reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to Germany. Germany had no American colonies and "has given no occasion for the assumption that it intends to acquire such possessions. . . ." (So also had spoken the Holy Alliance in the 1820s.) The Nazi Foreign Minister complained that the Monroe Doctrine would seem to confer on some European countries the right to have American territories and deny that right to others. (A Nazi discovery made 117 years after it had been...
...British Pavilion, Mrs. Marjorie Rosser, reported that early in the week a man had phoned, and in a muffled voice said: "Get everybody out before the box explodes." A careful search for a bomb had been made then. The night after the explosion, Mrs. Rosser's husband, answering the telephone at their home, heard a man's muffled voice say: "I'll kill you." Before the startled Rosser could answer, the line went dead...
...more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places in the world is a bathroom. But Dr. Dublin has an answer even for that one-an article called "How to Take a Bath and Live...
What newsmen most wanted to know, and none dared ask, was what, if anything, the nomination of Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries...
...years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear into his pet "deep oil" holes. There is a legend that in answer to a cable from...