Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...answer Russian propaganda that Negroes in the U.S. are an oppressed people deprived of opportunity, influence and position, President Truman last week decided to appoint Mrs. Edith Sampson, a 48-year-old lawyer, to the U.S. delegation for the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly. She will be the first Negro ever to speak...
...about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal or too demanding. But he got a sounder answer from a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. "I'll tell you what I'm fighting for," he said. "I'm fighting for my life...
...House cited 56 persons for contempt of Congress. All of them had refused to answer questions put to them by the Un-American Activities Committee in the past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...
...couple of years ago, after an affable dinner and a round of brandy, a Western diplomat asked him point-blank why he acted the way he did. Malik hesitated a moment, then calmly replied: "But I must obey my instructions." There seemed to be no cynicism in the answer...
...establishment of the American bomber base in England, nothing has been done to give any effective protection to our peoples from being subjugated or destroyed by the Russian Communist armies . . . The question which challenges us is: Shall we have the time [to prepare our defenses]? No one can answer that question for certain. To assume that we were too late would be the very madness of despair ... In my judgment we have a breathing space...