Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising for an angry answer, Ohio's Wayne L. Hays drew applause by declaring that "there is no person in the United States . . . who is doing more to divide Negro citizens from other citizens than the gentleman from New York." Powell's letter, added Hays, almost persuaded him to support the jury-trial amendment. Dangling a foot over the side of his chair, Howard Smith smiled contentedly...
...nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate him. Beck would not reply with yes or "it might," as most have done, but used the Fifth again...
...that the test case might be carried, if necessary, to the highest court in the land. He did not believe, McClellan said, that a witness "is entitled to invoke the Fifth Amendment unless he can also state under oath, without perjuring himself, that he honestly believes that if he answered the question truthfully the truthful answer might tend to incriminate him." South Dakota's Karl Mundt, for the Republicans, was quick to join McClellan. Beck Junior may well provide the ample material from which the courts will cut a decision that defines the protections but limits the abuses...
...regarded as a fine obstetrician. But most of his patients in Choisy thought it wiser not to call him to their sickbeds after nightfall: he often showed more than a professional interest in women. His third marriage in 1946 to gentle, adoring Marie-Claire Milhavet seemed an answer to all his problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head of a three-story household whose floors, reading from top to bottom, were occupied by 1) his mother, 2) his wife...
When even a little thought is asked, or where more than one answer is correct, then the inaccuracies that characterize grading here explode the system. Even teachers and administrators here doubt how well grades measure, and some begin to question just what they do measure...