Word: questionable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question: "When a cartoon or column appears in the press that is unfriendly to you, we often hear people say: 'I'll bet they won't let the President see that one.' Now what are your regular habits, sir, for keeping up with what we are saying about you?'' The answer: "Well, I don't know whether you can call it a habit-for the simple reason that it takes a lot of time if I was going to keep track of what all you people say. I take the-what I call...
Twenty-four hours after this editorial question appeared in Havana's Diario de la Marina, armed thugs from the Castro-controlled Cuban newspaper unions last week seized the paper, stilled the only remaining newspaper voice in Cuba that had continually dared to criticize the Castro regime...
...Hume Ross, Lawrence sought anonymity at the height of his fame (1922) by joining the R.A.F. as an ordinary airman (his later and more famous pseudonym was Shaw). Playwright Rattigan's account begins in the barracks, uses a series of flashbacks to go at the hero's question: "Oh, Ross. How did I become you?" As Guinness of Arabia, Sir Alec is at his subtle, suggestive best, and even the physical resemblance is striking. In his radicalism, there is more than a hint of the showoff; in his sophistication, a climber's cunning; in his humility...
...really be as good as .they say? The question last week prompted a capacity crowd to jam Helsinki's Conservatory of Music to hear a famed but little-recorded visiting pianist play for the first time outside Russia. The answer came quickly. Without even waiting for the welcoming applause to die away, Sviatoslav Richter launched into Beethoven's Sonata in D, and both audience and critics knew almost at once that they were listening to one of the world's great pianists at the top of his form...
...meeting, before a surprisingly wide-awake audience, by Dr. William Dement, 31, a research fellow in psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. While a member of Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman's research team at the University of Chicago, Dr. Dement had helped to settle an age-old question: Is dreaming continuous during sleep? The answer is no: it is intermittent. The beginning of a dream is signaled by brainwave changes shown on the electroencephalogram and by rapid eye movements...