Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Naval Academy a very quaint system known as the "plebe system" is effect. Under such a system upperclassmen have the privilege of asking plebes, or freshmen, silly questions. I am a plebe, and I have just been asked a silly question which I believe you may be able to answer...
Sixty-one Methodist ministers from Illinois journeyed into Washington last week for a first-hand briefing on the problems of the cold war and the welfare state. Before the briefing began, all 61 sat down to answer a list of 25 questions-"an audit of mid-century America." For the next three days they shuttled busily back & forth from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions...
Father Heithaus waggled a warning finger at the white Catholic "who rises with a face set in the hard lines of racial anger or hate and shouts: 'Would you want your sister to marry a Negro?' " For that question, he had another question and a sharp answer...
...Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, last week refused to answer a reporter's question about the H-bomb's "ultimate cost." Said McMahon: "We have in this room a representative of a news agency [Tass] that transmits every word of what I say to the Soviet Union . . . I'm tired of making it any easier for them than I have...
These questions puzzle me as well as others. It would make us feel less as though we had been left out if a mere adequate answer were provided...