Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Brickbats at the Window. When the news was relayed to him, Sir Basil tried to turn it with a soft word. But his answer was lost in a series of outraged shouts. John J. Hearne, first Irish ambassador to the U.S. and a newcomer to Washington, characterized the partition of Ireland as a "crime against the whole principle of democratic government." Then Rhode Island's Congressman John Fogarty carried the ringing cause to the floor of Congress...
...turned on this nation, which has shown that it could rise to heights of courage, and could also sink to depths of submission. Which of these two Frances was the free world depending on in 1950? In short, would the French fight? People who know France give a reluctant answer: France would not fight well...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
...Threshold. RCA believes that either or both tubes may prove to be the final answer. "There are still some refinements we want to make. We are not fully satisfied with either, right now," said RCA Vice President Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom. "We want more dots, for one thing, to bring the definition of the picture up ... We feel sure that a tricolored kinescope of this kind marks the beginning of color television in the home. This marks the passing over the threshold...
When argumentative mail came in, Spaeth explained that "most popular" did not necessarily mean "the best." Which were the best? He decided to meet that question headon, too. This week he gave his own answer in the Times. Only two songs, Stardust and St. Louis Blues made both lists. The other eight "best" according to Spaeth: Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1912), Lazy (1924), The Man 1 Love (1924), Chloe (1927), I'll See You Again (1929), All the Things You Are (1939), If I Loved You (1945), Were Thine That Special Face...