Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Buzzer. When Charles Sawyer took over, he quickly earned the nickname "Buzz" by keeping his aides hopping to answer his buzzer. He sent out a memo: "There will be no smoking in the Secretary's office or at conferences with the Secretary." That was distressing news to Commerce's economists, who love their ancient, richly caked pipes. It also set the tone for his administration: cordiality but no intimacy. Charles Sawyer lost no time in getting into affairs on a level above the merely administrative...
Next morning the Soviet answer became painfully plain. Berlin's elevated system, which is operated by the Soviet-controlled railroads, ran its trains 40 minutes apart in West Berlin. Angry riders jammed so tightly that glass panes were shattered. Communist rail officials explained: "[There had been] interference with the phone switchboard at the Direktion . . . We are reducing traffic to avoid catastrophes." This was an unvarnished lie: General Taylor showed correspondents (including embarrassed Communist reporters) the automatic board, clicking and blinking away as ever, and unimpaired...
...election over, Paasikivi sent off a stiff answer to the month-old Russian note accusing Finland of harboring Soviet "war criminals." Finland, said Paasikivi, "is entitled to reject categorically the assertions that Finnish authorities have supplied war criminals with faked documents...
Seldom really human but everywhere humane, The Enchanted shimmers with a fine Gallic playfulness. It improvises a quick, ingenious answer for everything, doubtless as a way of saying that there is no certain answer for anything, and that the nearest thing to release from care is a fantasy by Giraudoux. The obvious theater qualities which The Enchanted lacks are richly offset by the rare ones it has. It is rather a shame that the production has just the earthiness needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good...
...Washington last week, thousands of other plain citizens were sharing Killy's opinion as they crowded around eight CBS sets in the Walker Building to get their first look at color TV. The two one-hour shows each day are in answer to a Federal