Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...launched the chignon fad, one Madame Marguerite Buck of Fashion Futures, had also helped promote the short haircut. "American women carry things to extremes," said she. "We didn't expect them to crop all their hair off-they look like Chihuahuas." The chignon, she thought, was the ideal answer...
Dust and chips flew as bullets rattled off the old Spanish walls. One attacker got as far as the portico. There he fell, sieved by bullets. Another, hit a dozen times, moaned: "I'm already dead. Please don't shoot me any more." The answer was another blast of fire. Of the six Nationalist attackers, four died, another was badly wounded, the sixth taken prisoner...
...Evil." Occasionally even these meager rights have been violated by mob action. Six weeks after one such episode, reports Garrison, "the periodical El Iris de Paz ('the Rainbow of Peace'!), by its own description 'a fortnightly magazine of information and guidance, Marian and Catholic'-answered a real or imaginary inquirer who asked: 'Is it lawful to enter into chapels or meeting places of Protestants . . . with the sole idea of disturbing and of destroying the furniture and other articles?' The answer was in three parts: 1) as to 'disturbing,' yes. 'Most certainly...
...Detroit music critics, the town was beginning to get fired up over the idea of trying again. J. Dorsey Callaghan, the Detroit Free Press critic, even went so far as to ask "a conductor whose musical reputation is an international one" as to his availability for a job. In answer to his question, old (76) Serge Koussevitzky, who turned over his Boston Symphony to Charles Munch last year, replied: WILL
During the past few years, the sale of raw popcorn has skyrocketed 500%. Leaving no stone unturned to find out why, the National Association of Popcorn Manufacturers sent pollsters to question 200 families living in & around Chicago. Last week they had their answer: television. Of TV-owners, 4% eat hot, buttered, homemade popcorn every single night of the week. Another 10% eat it five or six nights a week; 63% indulge one to four nights a week...