Or rather, between the thing and the word a question had appeared, a slight pause, a rupture.

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The last question is the subject of a 1, 437 word bulletin from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, which addresses the question of whether restaurants, supermarkets and bakeries should collect sales tax on the sale of ice cream cakes.

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Republican presidential candidates respond to a question about whether they believe every word of the Bible.

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But that question requires more than a one-word answer.

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To the others she offered not a word, for she knew that the question was unrelated to biology, to where babies come from and how they're made.

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One word on the trick-or-treating question: As a child, adults told me that bad people "often" put razor blades in apples, or put poison into candy at Halloween.

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It could be a word of encouragement, a helping hand, a lesson that sparked a question, that ignited a passion, and ultimately may have propelled a career.

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That may attract a one-word answer, but the response to the Conservative Oliver Colville's question on the levels of Public Finance Initiative (PFI) debt in hospitals might attract an interesting response.

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No word on co-op play, but that set-up makes it a big question mark.

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Keep in mind that because mania is only a word we use to describe certain types of behavior and emotions, there is no clear answer to your question of where mania stops and a temper tantrum begins.

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