Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters into their own hands...
...When I'm not hitting," says New York Yankees Right Fielder Roger Maris, "my wife could be pitching and get me out." Then he adds: "But when I am hitting, you watch out." With the 1960 baseball season entering its steaming final phases, there is no question at all about whether Roger Maris is hitting: as of last weekend, with a respectable batting average of .296, he was leading both leagues in home runs with 35, and in runs-batted-in, with a remarkable 94. By near-unanimous agreement the Yankees' Roger Maris, at 25, has played...
...little late in the history of Western civilization to question the meaning of the word book, but the fact is that many publishers are paying their analysts with profits from the sale of goods that are not books at all. They are, in fact, non-books...
...most influential movie critic in America, back from an extended cinematic tour in Europe, lost no time in firing a bombshell whose repercussions will be felt for some time. The critic in question is, of course, the New York Times' Bosley Crowther; and the blast was his August 7 column, "Subtitles Must Go!" In it he came out strongly in favor of dubbed English dialogue in foreign language films...
...gauging the economy's ability to grow-and a major issue in the argument over how great the U.S. rate of growth should be. Last week the Labor Department announced that productivity rose substantially in a number of industries in 1959. But it also raised the serious question of how much productivity will grow...