Match the the definition to the word. 1. threateningly 2. piece of dining room furniture that holds dishes and other table service 3. guards 4. a piece of furniture with spindled arms and back a) sideboard b) sentinels c) bench d) ominously

Correct answers:

1. Threateningly - D) Ominously. In a way that suggests something unpleasant or threatening is likely to happen.

2. Piece of dining room furniture that holds dishes and other table service - A) Sideboard. This piece of furniture has cupboards and drawers to contain glasses, table linen, crockery, etc.

3. Guards - B) Sentinels. A person or group of people whose job is to protect someone or something, or to prevent a person from escaping.

4. A piece of furniture with spindled arms and back - C) Bench. A long seat for two or more people, usually found in public places.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.