Word: answerable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When "City Lights" was first released in 1931, Hollywood was still loudly exalting Sound. Press agents were jabbering about the "gigantic strides" of the movie industry. Charlie Chaplin's answer to this in "City Lights" was a few minutes of magnificently incomprehensible gargling, and a first-class musical score composed by Chaplin himself...
...with the job of Secretary of Defense. But by now it was clear that to keep Johnson in the Cabinet was to risk the Democrats' political neck, perhaps even jeopardize the country's security. Mr. Truman had to do something. The general, whom he venerates, was the answer to his prayers...
That night, the news broke. Johnson's resignation and the President's deadpan answer were given to the press. The man whom, only a fortnight before, Harry Truman had insisted he would not fire, was fired.* White, choked up, Johnson faced photographers on his way in to one of the last Cabinet meetings that he would attend...
...while Senators listened stony-faced, gripping the arms of their chairs. Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall, shaking, almost speechless, managed to say: "If any man in public life is more above censure than General George Marshall, I do not know of him. I wish I had the vocabulary to answer the statement that the life of George Marshall...
Inevitable Answer. Most of the argument at the CFM and the NAC turned on point 2, the rearmament of Germany. Instead of telling the European nations what the conditions of defense had to be, the U.S. requested agreement on rearming Germany and on other actions unwelcome to some of the Europeans. From France's Robert Schuman and some others, the U.S. got the inevitable answer: let's wait a while...