Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leap to freedom, Oksana Kosenkina, a schoolteacher scheduled to be returned to Russia, gave her answer...
Windy City. In Chicago, policemen who helped fish 96-lb. Harry Goldman from the river asked him why he had jumped, got a straight answer: "I didn't jump, the wind blew...
...Communist spy ring. There, Miss Bentley had testified, Mrs. Silvermaster and William Ludwig Ullman, an Air Forces major who lived with the Silvermasters, had photographed documents and other data which Miss Bentley carried to her Russian employers. Silvermaster had denied that he was a spy, but he refused to answer other pertinent questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself...
...boycotting was local, enthusiastic, uncoordinated, and made no claim to staying power. Even if the drive could be organized on a nationwide scale, housewives were not at all sure that they had the answer. But they were sure that somebody should do something. Last spring a Gallup poll showed the public strongly opposed to the return of controls. Last week Gallup reported that the nation now favored, by an amazing 56% to 35%, restoration of both price controls and rationing of many retail products...
What will U.S. art be like, say ten years hence? Last week the small but influential Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass, was supplying an answer of a sort...