Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Alger. Tall, urbane Dean Acheson was well prepared. Settling back in the witness chair, impeccably correct in a double-breasted grey suit, he began: "I have waited a long time to answer this, and I want to answer in detail. As a preliminary I would like to state that my friendship is not easily given and is not easily withdrawn...
...they come in the hundreds, there is yet no plan for helping these people. The shabby office, beyond offering a few nights' lodging, can only register names, count them and ask: What now? The answer can come only from one of those "top level" decisions in halls of state far from the world of the smiling hunchback or the frightened housewife...
...Harsh Answer. For two weeks following his New Year's peace proclamation (TIME, Jan. 10), the Gimo had stubbornly withstood mounting pressure from his subordinates to step aside and hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from...
...facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
...document, written in answer to the Council's detailed statement on the charges against him, contains "a refutation of the two most important charges, a refutation of the four least important charges," a listing of 89 minor points with which he "finds himself at variance," a claim that the entire Council action was illegal, and a final summing...