Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Acheson was obviously pleased with the way he had phrased his answer, and he gave reporters permission to quote it direct. But it was just the kind of toplofty response that his critics found hard to take and his friends found hard to defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics...
Unlike the Republican 80th Congress, the Democrats would organize the 82nd. The Republicans would wield a balance of power without having to answer directly for what Congress did. They had not planned it that way, but they were mightily pleased that it was to be that...
Anna Marie Lederer Rosenberg decided to answer the letter by phone. In New York she put in a call to Defense Secretary George Marshall. "What's your answer, Anna?" asked Marshall. "Any request of yours to me has always been a command," said Mrs. Rosenberg...
...name and a face were all most voters had to choose from; in some states, however, voters last week also got a chance to answer yes or no on the specific kind of government they wanted. Some of their decisions...
...tung's government reacted to the U.N. concessions as Communist governments usually react to any signs of weakness. From Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai came a stiff message refusing the U.N. invitation to send delegates to discuss Chinese intervention in Korea. But, in answer to a previous Security Council invitation, Chou agreed to send delegates to discuss what Chou called U.S. "aggression on Formosa." Besides discussing Formosa, Chou suggested, his delegates ought to be given a chance to accuse the U.S. of "armed intervention" in Korea...