Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Three years after he refused to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, pudgy Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, trudged off to a Washington, D.C. jail last week to begin serving his one-year (plus $1,000 fine) sentence for contempt of Congress. Dennis protested that it wasn't fair to jail him while he was busy appealing two other sentences which he had incurred since: five years and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and six months for contempt of court for his disruptive...
Lifting tackle was rigged under his arms, hauled tight. He groaned with pain. Fifteen minutes, a half hour, three-quarters of an hour passed before his rescuers freed his leg. Then, after 27½ hours, he sagged limply. "Pa!" his son called. "Pop!" There was no answer. The mud-stained, exhausted doctor climbed down into the pit, came up slowly with his face lined and sad. Dominick was dead...
...worker; labor might even have to agree, in some cases, to an hourly wage cut for the older man. One thing is certain: higher pensions, like higher wages, will have to be paid for by industry-either by higher prices or higher productivity. And higher prices are not the answer. Said Eastman Kodak Co.'s Treasurer Marion B. Folsom, long an expert on pensions: "If we are to give more goods and services to those who no longer work, those who are working must produce more. Otherwise, everybody's standard of living will fall." That...
When they had finished their beer the correspondent and the Ukrainian walked out of the cafe into Berlin's brilliant May sunshine. Before they parted the correspondent asked: "What do your people really hope for?" The answer was quick and passionate: "The thing we've hoped for for years. The end of foreign rule and exploitation by Moscow, either through czars or commissars. A life where we can travel more than 20 kilometers without an MVD permit, where we can be without fear and terror, where we are free...
...same conference it happened again. Acting Chairman Sumner Pike said that the successful development of the hydrogen bomb "is right in the laps of the gods . . . The answer to the question about progress will probably be given when one goes bang or doesn't." A few minutes later he estimated the chances of success as "somewhere between probable and possible...