Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to snort. "What keeps 'em from voting is Section 244 of the Constitution of 1890." That section stipulated that voters−Negro voters, anyway−must be able to interpret a state constitution that, as Bilbo chortled, "damn few white men and no niggers at all can explain...
Kraft told Capsule Communicator McDivitt to raise the capsule on the radio and explain the problems and possibilities for going beyond the sixth orbit...
...transcripts. As best as anyone could make out, the marks were entered by two kindly clerks, Mrs. Ellen Sjogren, 62, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lammlin, 37, who claimed that LeVine merely signed batches of blank forms, which the ladies in turn filled out under a longstanding system. Asked to explain the grading system used on 75 transcripts, Mrs. Sjogren said: "I'm getting old. I can't even remember what I did last week...
...players felt the excitement most of all. "I've never seen this team so spirited," said Manager Bragan. How else to explain the fact that Catcher Gene Oliver, who hit only 13 home runs all last year, clouted four in 24 hours to win two games? Or the clutch pinch-hitting of Don Dillard (average: .200), who drove in the winning run twice in a week in the last inning? Or the fantastic spurt of Third Baseman Eddie Mathews, who raised his average 26 points (to .259) and accounted for 25 runs in nine games...
...heart of the issue is a seven-page piece of "philosophy" titled "Thoughts at Departure" by Dr. Maximillian Herzberger, a mathematician recently retired from Kodak. Dr. Herzberger delivers a heavy-handed sermon to explain that materialism is a bad thing, that fame alone is a bad thing, and that the respect of other people is a good thing. Such thoughts hardly fit into a magazine of "contemporary expression." We might tend to agree with them all, but the modern mind requires more than vague homilies...