Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pine-paneled hearing room in Nassau's Supreme Court building, the rotund witness mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling, by the government in which Sands...
...both have the same aim: the takeover of South Viet Nam and the reunification of the Vietnamese under Hanoi's Red rule. But the dual assault, with all its variations, has made the task of the U.S. and its allies doubly difficult?tough to assess and hard to explain. Victories over the North Vietnamese troops do not readily translate into visible progress in the guerrilla war. The bombing of North Viet Nam may slow the southward flow of arms and aid, but as yet has not notably diminished the vast acreage of land now in Viet Cong hands. That differential...
...death penalty in Russia, Czar Nicholas II was opposed to the notion. What would become of discipline in the army, he wanted to know? Kerensky, who was a bit of a fusspot but a far more decent man than any of the Bolsheviks who replaced him, tried gently to explain to the last of the Romanovs that the law he proposed was designed to preserve the Czar's own life...
...always at the reader's elbow, adding explanations ("to a man wielding a microscope, his own seeing eyes are blind"), pointing out high spots, summing up. The only thing she could do (now) to help the book would be to write one of her well-reasoned essays to explain why she wrote...
Borgmann, a Chicago actuary, displayed his linguistic passion in an earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...