Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even in his league. You know why? He sees through things." Six years ago, Madden joined Pat Summerall in the broadcast booth, and they have become an institution. Summerall, a former New York Giants place-kicker, smoothly handles the play-by-play and generously provides Professor Madden time to explain what just happened...
...rivals responded to other flights of Robertson rhetoric, like his loose talk of rolling back Communism in the Soviet Union. On the Democratic side, there has been no direct criticism of Jackson's cavalier proposal for Draconian cuts in defense spending. Similarly, no Democrat has asked Jackson to explain how he could tap the nation's pension funds for a massive public works program without jeopardizing the income of retirees or providing expensive federal guarantees...
...during the first 45 years of the 20th century. This vast subject is interesting in a number of ways, although a sense of surprise is not one of them; nearly everyone knows how World Wars I and II turned out. Deighton's purpose is not to astound but to explain. He meticulously traces the lives of two brothers, the sons of a wealthy Berlin financier and his beautiful American wife. Peter Winter is the elder by three years; Paul, born in 1900, is a "child of the new century." One brother, inevitably, will become a Nazi, while the other will...
Last week, in the first indictment of its kind, a federal grand jury charged Stella Nickell with causing the deaths of her husband and Snow by means of tampering with a consumer product. Prosecutors refused to explain her alleged motives, and their memo seeking court approval of her jailing was sealed. If convicted of the tampering charge, Nickell could face life in prison...
...afternoon when the sun is out, sure," Vince says. But what about having to answer the same stupid question over and over and over again? "We never get stupid questions," Vince says diplomatically. "We have to be diplomatic. You get question like, 'Where is Harvard Square?' and have to explain, `Well, you're standing in the middle...