Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public opinion. He goes out of his way to cater to it. He said of the 1955 bill to extend the draft: "Let us hope, pray or what not that the thing expires on a year not divisible by two. There are several reasons that I need not explain to you why this is so." Elections, for example, are held on years divisible...
...Joseph accurately prophesied seven good and seven bad years for Egypt-stem from his observation of an ancient custom among Israel's nomadic Bedouins. After any October in which there is moderate rainfall, the desert wanderers move out of the Negev into more hospitable land. "Early rain," they explain confidently, "means a dry year...
Part of this print explosion can be accounted for by the country's population growth and the swelling school enrollment. But these factors alone do not explain the phenomenon. Not only are-more people buying books; more people are buying more books. They are stacked in supermarkets, racked in discount houses, packed in drugstores. The market is manic. Retail outlets now number about 120,000, and still they cannot stock the 190,000 titles in hard and soft cover that are currently in print, let alone the 28,000 additional titles that sprout every year...
...QUARTERBACK by Murray Olderman. 437 pages. Prentice-Hall. $12.95. An attempt with words and pictures to explain the collisions that take place on autumnal afternoons. The game, which Sports Editor Olderman defines as "human chess," receives thorough coverage, including the author's own rating of the best pro quarterbacks: 1) Otto Graham, 2) John Unitas, and 3) Bobby Layne...
...experiment in group therapy was approved by Cuernavaca's Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Alarmed by Lemercier's innovation, the Vatican sent several investigators to Cuernavaca, and last year Lemercier went to Rome to explain the results to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is still there, and in response to his pleas, Pope Paul has appointed a commission of three cardinals to review his case-and, in effect, the broad question of whether psychotherapy is a proper means of helping a man decide whether he is truly called to the monastic life...