Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...obvious answer came in an indignant chorus from Republicans: yes. And it came not only from those whom Acheson was trying to isolate as "isolationists." Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a supporter of bipartisanship in foreign affairs, declared: "There is going to be a re-examination of foreign policy by Congress. That is simply one of the facts of life, and the Secretary of State had better take cognizance...
Sitting across the courtroom from Harry Gold, Brothman heard the story last week in tight-lipped silence; Miss Moskowitz with grinning disdain. Their chance to answer it was yet to come...
...brown suit, brown tie and deep black scowl, he faced a whole battery of newsmen, photographers, movie cameras and tape recorders. Said Mickey proudly: "I could spit on the sidewalk and it would make headlines." For five hours, without notes and without much help from his two lawyers, he answered questions put by committee lawyers and three Senators. Whenever they put him on the spot, Mickey would hoist his bushy eyebrows, look injured and answer: "I don't know." He denied every charge on which he was questioned...
Although frequently nettled, Mickey completely lost his poise only once. When a committee lawyer began a question, "Is it not a fact . . . that you live extravagantly, surrounded by violence? . . ." Mickey roared: "What do you mean 'surrounded by violence?' People are shooting at me." Admonished to answer the question, Mickey said sullenly, "I don't like the way he asks them questions. There's two ways to ask a question and I say he isn't asking them right...
...comes, Yale will answer the challenge with CODAM. These initials stand for Committee on Defense and Mobilization, a commission Yale formed to make plans for the university in the event of total mobilization...