Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Pentagon officials had to go through all manner of contortions to explain why the MIGs had suddenly become a threat. For one thing, they said, the Communist jets have forced many U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced...
...wanted to maintain the Harvard snobbery, you could explain the "summies" performance by theorizing that during the summer Harvard-Radcliffe under-achieves, while the "summies" over-achieve. But you do not have to put it in those terms. The summer school students are impressed by Harvard, and by being at Harvard, and so take the school and themselves seriously. They study, they work hard (one Cliffie who shared a dormitory suite with three "summies" remembers that they were surprised by and even disapproving of her erratic study habits) and they do well--69 per cent of the grades last summer...
...home, Constantine got more royal treatment, was even allowed to listen when his father talked with the politicians. "I used to sit in the corner," he remembers. "During the time the visitor was there, I was not allowed to say a word. When he left, my father would explain to me what they had been saying...
...sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped: "Just because your cousin Theodore behaves like an idiot is no reason why you should behave like an idiot...
...most outspoken "experts" on the painting of Morris Louis discuss his work as if it grew in total isolation from artistic influences, and, hence, has no art historical past. They align him with lesser painters (notably Kenneth Noland), they ignore all his romantic emotionality, and they explain him largely in intellectual terms. The quality of feeling in Louis' paintings is undeniable and though the influence of the intellectual approach of Noland and the critic Clement Greenberg is clear, Louis cannot be discussed as part of that movement...