Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Richard Nixon, scenting opportunity, decided to call him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and ask him a few questions. (Once before, when Whittaker Chambers named Pressman as a member of the same elite apparatus as Alger Hiss, Pressman had taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer Congressmen's questions...
...Robert Baker and his copilot, Robert Reinicke, worked the controls, headed for the Denver Airport 100 miles away. But as it sank steadily toward the earth the passengers had but one thought. "Do we have a chance?" The two stewardesses, one staggering groggily with a bleeding head, could only answer: "Please fasten your seat belts. We will be in Denver in 20 minutes...
...admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...
When the planes pulled out of the run, the captain noticed that Lou Sebille's plane was trailing smoke. He called Lou on the radio three times before he got an answer. Then Lou said simply: "I'm hit." The captain thought Lou was just talking about his plane; later, he realized that Lou had meant that he himself had been wounded, probably mortally. The captain suggested that Lou try to make it back to a U.S. emergency landing strip a few miles away...
...battle in many a faraway land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...