Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Browder grew querulous under questioning. He snorted: "If I had known Communists in the State Department, I wouldn't give you their names." Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper tried him out on a series of names. Shouted Browder: "I refuse to answer. I will have no part in a fishing expedition." Connecticut's Brien McMahon tried another tack. "You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned. What did he know of Dorothy Kenyon, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent...
...Four Answers. But none of this advanced the investigation of Owen Lattimore much. While the week's testimony tended to prove that Lattimore had kept some bad company, e.g., Field, it did not yet prove him a Communist, as Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy had charged he was. What about McCarthy's assertion that Lattimore was "the principal architect of our Far Eastern policy?" Seeking an answer, Senator Tydings wrote to four Secretaries of State...
Actually, neither the Labor nor Tory leaders really want a coalition now. Churchill, while talking vaguely about coalition without actually committing himself, was making a shrewd play for the votes of many Britons who have a vague idea that coalition is the answer...
...want to be considered creative actors," snorted a spokesman for the dubbing company, "when in reality all they do is copy. They may be fat and ugly themselves, making it impossible for them to take original roles." It was a foolish argument, for which Actor Hubert had a prompt answer. "Is Paula Dehelly fat and ugly?" he cried of the svelte little player (see cut) whom many a Parisian had applauded on stage & screen in her own right. "I put it to you, is she fat and ugly? Piece of a rotten turnip...
...Danny, can't ya ever give me a straight answer? Haven't we always been pals...