Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second reassurance was meant for both European skeptics and American taxpayers. How could the West possibly defend itself against Russia's massed millions? Last week officials spelled out more explicitly the U.S. answer. Western forces, said Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. in a speech at West Point, must "be prepared to meet these masses of heavily mechanized ground forces with smaller numbers of highly scientific ground troops equipped with revolutionary new weapons...
...naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer: the Pacific. The taxi driver drove off as though he had just seen the biggest traffic cop in the world...
...Plan was apt to be even more so, what solution was there? If there were no politicians around to outpromise each other for the farmer's vote, could a sensible program be designed? Could the $25 billion-a-year farm business ever stand on its own feet? The answer, from most experts, was a guarded "maybe"; they could see a possible way out, though they argued about how to achieve...
...Answer to Prayer. At 80, short, bright-eyed Brother Hance, founder of the home and the St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, an Episcopal order, still seems as active as he was that day in 1896 when he quit his office job. In his history of the brotherhood he tells some of the things that happened next...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently the grader often mentally assumes the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...