Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...three hours the Senators tried to get a straight answer from McCarthy on whether he had said 205 or not. Four times West Virginia's Matt Neely demanded: "Will the Senator answer yes or no?" Ducking and dodging a flat answer McCarthy finally said: "Let us be done with this silly numbers game . . ." Rejoined Neely: "It is obvious that someone ... is lying as deliberately and outrageously as Ananias...
Everywhere, in his plain, unangry way, he did his best to answer the charges leveled against him. He had only pledged support to the Fair Deal "in general," Graham protested. Though he was a member of the President's Civil Rights Committee, he was against any fair employment law based on compulsion, a position shared by many another conscientious Southern legislator. He was opposed to the Brannan Plan. He favored the present agricultural price-support program, said Graham. "In spite of some defects it has proved itself [by] bringing to a more equitable level the income of farmers...
...needs seems to be a renewal of the functions which make a varsity club operate, not a new clubhouse. There is, however, need for a hockey rink and an auditorium with facilities for theatrical productions. The new student activities center building is sadly outdated. Provided with money which might answer some if not all of these needs, needs which have been discussed frequently in the CRIMSON and elsewhere about the College, the College has chosen to build a varsity club for which there is not real need...
...effects of treating rheumatoid arthritis sufferers with the hormones ACTH and cortisone (TIME, May 2, 1949). In that year, millions of pain-racked arthritics had clamored for the "new cure," or begged their doctors to tell them how soon they could expect relief and how much. Last week the answer was plain: they could expect nothing certain for a long, long time...
...Bite the Hand ... In Atlantic City, jaded residents were warned by their decorous Chamber of Commerce never to "argue with a visitor," were further admonished to answer "Yes, sir," not "O.K., bud," to vacationists...