Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Indo-China be held against Communism? In search of an answer, TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre spent six weeks in the troubled, war-torn country. His report...
...Democrats' Answer. The answers had a lovely sound. New York would have to hold a special mayoralty election at the same time as the elections for Governor and Senator. The Democrats could undoubtedly put a fresh, cooperative type of mayor into office. Better yet, they would stir up a big city vote, and with Tom Dewey already out of the gubernatorial race, might be able to re-elect Senator Herbert Lehman and put over their whole slate, from Governor on down...
...wrote songs in praise of homosexuality and accompanied them on the lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...
...outstanding United Nations' diplomats. Last week, even Britain's urbane Sir Gladwyn Jebb found the drumfire of questions hard to handle. Some he met squarely ("No, I don't think Soviet Russia should be tossed out of the U.N."); some he dodged ("I can't answer questions about Formosa in public...
...rash of price rises last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) many a businessman had a pat answer: "We're not raising prices just because of the Korean war. The boom was on before that." And commodity prices which had slumped last winter had started up again before Korea because of the heavy new buying from industry...