Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Loses? Not everyone agreed with Lodge's reading of the future. Ohio's Robert Taft feared that Republicans stood to lose more in the North than they could gain in the South. To that, Lodge & Co. had a telling answer. Figuring the 1948 election on the Lodge formula, Democrat Harry Truman would still have won with a total of 258 electoral votes, but Republican Tom Dewey would have picked up an extra 32 electoral votes...
...criticism and has quarreled with most close business associates, he cannot bear to be alone; he keeps himself surrounded by a circle of yes-men. They treat him with anxious concern, like veterinarians in a lion's cage. But McCarthy needs them-to mix him a drink, answer the telephone, nod when he speaks, to leap into a plane with him if he wants to go to New York, to Hollywood...
...party. He said that when he broke from the party he had tried to persuade Alger Hiss to break with him. "He cried when we separated," Chambers said, ". . . but he absolutely refused to break." Most of the people he named stood on their constitutional rights and refused to answer the question whether they were Communists. Donald Hiss categorically denied being a Red. Alger Hiss also denied the accusations, and added once more that as far as he could recall he had never in his life seen Chambers, said that he did not recognize his photograph, and declared that...
...Americans are not here exclusively to feed the German people and promote economic recovery . . . Our main purpose is to help Germany achieve political recovery . . . That is my answer to those who occasionally say that we have no right to mix in the political problems confronting this country...
Short of Ideal. Scientist Murdock's challenge got a quick answer. The Rev. William J. Gibbons, of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, rose to the defense of premarital chastity. "Man," said Jesuit Gibbons, "is a moral being . . . Man's reason, properly used, can still tell him what ought to be, even if his concrete behavior falls short of the ideal . . . Sex, like any other tendency in man, must be regulated by reason. Man, not being governed by the detailed instincts of lesser animals, would find his tendencies running wild were he not to regulate them by reason...