Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisconsinites liked his forthrightness, his willingness to talk turkey on any issue, his habit of holding informal question-&-answer periods after every formal talk. Meanwhile the well-trained Stassen organization bombarded voters with letters and telephone calls, turned out with their cars on election day to get the Stassen votes to the polls. Beyond that, Harold Stassen had the support and vote-getting pull of Senator Joe McCarthy and former GOP State Chairman Tom Coleman. When the votes were counted, Harold Stassen had propelled himself into the front rank of GOPresidential candidates...
...Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...
What happened in Italy in the days just ahead would answer one vital question: Can Communists capture a nation where there is neither Red army nor Red police? The result would decide whether Italy would take her place with Western Europe (and Western Union) or with the satellite East. And that decision, in turn, would affect the worldwide question of war & peace. For it was a simple fact that Italy formed a precarious bulge in the West's defenses: if this battle of the bulge were lost, Communism would stand at the Alps and reach deep into the Mediterranean...
Much of the answer depended on one man: Alcide de Gasperi, Premier of Italy, and head of the Christian Democratic Party. Around him, whether they liked him or not, whether he liked them or not, all anti-Communists were rallied. This tall, lanky man with chilly blue eyes, aggressive nose, a wide, grimly compressed mouth, was the bearer of Christian Democracy's standard-a red cross on a white shield, with the legend: "Liberty...
...What will happen when the British aren't here to run in these convoys?" Gibbs asked one capable Jewish woman who helps to organize the food distribution. "We're very worried. I just don't know the answer," she admitted...