Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...unpleasant answer could be that the Reds . . . might, not want to push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive, in which the enemy commits all his reserves, plus up to 200,000 China-trained countrymen, plus his planes . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...
...This argument would be hard to answer in purely military terms if the U.S., by striking first, could (as General Anderson seemed to suggest) really destroy Russia's atomic capabilities. But by "atomic nests" Anderson obviously meant Russian A-bomb factories. He could hardly hope to destroy the stockpile of Russian bombs already made and hidden. Nobody knows how large this stockpile is; probably it is more than 10 and less than 60-enough to give the Kremlin a means of dreadful retaliation...
Were enough young Americans being properly trained for the overseas careers in business and government that would be open after World War II? The prominent citizens who met, one day in 1943, to mull that question over decided the answer was no. So the notables-including onetime Ambassador Joseph Grew, Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, the Commerce Department's Will Clayton and Congressman Christian Herter of Massachusetts-agreed to start a graduate school of their own. That was the beginning of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and its School of Advanced International Studies...
...Whirlaway, Boussac will politely lift his hat, smilingly extend his hand in greeting. A subaltern will whisper, "M. Boussac thinks you have just paid him a compliment." No matter how well the reporter speaks French, the interview is closed. Four or five years hence, M. Boussac may supply the answer on French, British and possibly U.S. racetracks...
Based originally on the familiar parlor game, Truth or Consequences has made nonsense of the questions (sample: "What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered?" Answer: "Australia"), and concentrated on outlandish penalties. But Edwards shrewdly mixes the humiliation of contestants with what he calls the "good-gesture type of act" involving "a personal rehabilitation or something along that line." One projected good gesture: the televised reunion of a wounded Korean war veteran and his mother...