Word: explained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will." Foley says that Garwood was shot during his capture and "surrounded by death" during the 14 years he spent in Viet Nam. "One particular P.O.W. death still overwhelms Bobby," says Foley. "He still has trouble talking about it, but when the story comes out it will greatly help explain what he did during those 14 years...
Morland, 36, a longtime nuclear opponent, was determined to make precisely that point from the start. As he told TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "I think the H-bomb secret is a political secret, not a technical secret. I wanted to explain the fact that there is no secret. But simply to say there is no secret and not go any further carries less impact than actually demonstrating the fact...
Einhorn "had a dozen character witnesses" at his bail hearing Tuesday, Larry Rosen, police reporter for radio station KYW in Philadelphia said yesterday. He said this may explain Einhorn's comparatively low bail...
...excoriation of whiteness was not a thing to sneer at. In the portals of ivy, Afro-American literature was not a subject to be studied or even understood. After all, what did Afro-Americans know about versification, the strophe or the periphrase? How else could one explain the fact that The American Tradition in Literature by Bradley, Beatty and Long, one of the standard texts used in American colleges during the 1960's, devoted only two-and-one-half of its 1734 pages to Afro-American literature...
This, of course, brings me to another question--not the what or why I teach, but the where. In Afro-American studies the where seems always to take precedence over all other questions. At each moment of my academic life. I find myself having to explain why I teach in the "refuse heap of academia." Sometimes, overwhelmed by evidences of the most "objective" kind. I, like Aime Cesaire, am forced to "declare my crimes" and confess that "the expanse of my perversity confounds me." Yet, I must make a further confession. I must confess that I love my people...