Word: explained
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Under the new selection system, freshmen with "substantial" reasons for selecting a particular House have been encouraged to write letters to Dean Monro to explain these reasons...
Bergthold said he thought the drive's "individual approach"--every applicant had a personal interview with a returned volunteer--was a major factor in the drive's success. "The Peace Corps has often failed to explain just what living and working overseas is like...
...denied the traditional concept of the question-and-answer period, an occasion to enlighten the public on public matters. But Press Secretary Moyers, speaking for his chief, said in January that the conferences serve "the convenience of the President, not the convenience of the press." This in part may explain the President's reluctance to hold them...
...first test of will happened only four months after Washington's Inauguration, when he dutifully called upon the Senate to ask its advice and consent to a treaty with Southern Indians. He brought with him his Secretary of War to explain the details. The treaty was read aloud, but because of the noise of passing carriages, some Senators complained that they had not grasped it and, refusing to be hurried, moved to send the bill to a committee for study. "This defeats every purpose of my coming here," said Washington, who, according to an eyewitness, was "in a violent...
...night of German occupation. Unlike many of his countrymen, Mauriac has kept his vision of De Gaulle shining ever since. In this odd book-neither a biography nor a wholly accurate account of De Gaulle's politics but a kind of personal political devotional-Mauriac, 80, tries to explain just what it is about De Gaulle that commands his fealty. He attests that he is not obsessed with De Gaulle, but, unhappily, this does not prove to be true: Mau-riac's quivering admiration simply is too great to be contained. The reader never really grasps what lies...