Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Witness Lattimore had come to answer what he called McCarthy's "base and contemptible" charges that he was a top Soviet agent. But it was a little difficult, he declared, to decide just what he now stood accused of. The first time he had been named by McCarthy he had been let off as a simple "pro-Communist." Then he had become "the top Russian espionage agent," as suddenly had been demoted again to a "bad policy risk...
...determined bipartisan majority listened but was not impressed. When voting began, it doggedly beat down one McCarran proposal after another: by prearrangement, a Democrat would answer one amendment, a Republican the next. McCarran tried to cut the total number of admissible D.P.s, to swamp the D.P. quotas by making eligible 8,000,000 Germans expelled from Iron Curtain countries, to keep discriminatory requirements against Jews and Catholics, to ban all D.P. admissions when there are more than 4,000,000 U.S. unemployed or more than 2,000,000 families living doubled...
...pray for Joe Stalin today?" Smathers would ask his audiences, and the angry "noes" sounded like votes. Pepper in turn called attention to Smathers' birthplace in Atlantic City, N.J., denounced him as a damyankee intruder. To which Smathers would answer that he himself was a University of Florida graduate, while Pepper deserted his native state to go north to Harvard. "Felix Frankfurter had nothing to do with my education," boomed Smathers. "Alger Hiss is no classmate of mine. I don't travel under the Crimson banner of Harvard...
Under the leveling influence of the Labor government, many a land-poor British lord was proving willing to provide (for a price) a firsthand answer to questions like this one asked by 18th Century Poet Alexander Pope after a visit to Blenheim Palace...
...Jamaica race track last week, Eddie got his answer. The day was drab, chilly, drizzly; the track was sloppy, and only 19,834 fans had turned out to watch the Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that...