Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...What's the matter?" asked Otto, and got no answer: Doyle was already dead. After police carried off the body and helped Otto away, standees scrambled for the two vacant seats, and the game began...
...statement: the senior U.S. representative was Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires Robert Strong, a State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...apprehensive world asked these questions at bars and council tables, at workbench and at hearthside, followed them with a hundred more. The answer was buried in the mind of a grey, catlike old man behind the walls of the Kremlin. Would the cat in the Kremlin jump again? If he did, where and how would he strike? Or could he again be made to purr benignly in the role that had persuaded a lot of Americans (who would now like to bite their tongues off) to call him, fondly, Uncle...
...want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...
...Shoe Fits. Maria and her brother-in-law Victor Deckx were in court to answer Martha Minnen's charges that they had slandered her, but Maria refused to be intimidated. "I believed in witches," she declared to one & all, "and I still believe in witches. If the shoe fits...