Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arizona since his disappearance, the jurors were convinced by damaging testimony from Hunt's associates, as well as a seven-page recipe for murder in Hunt's hand. Titled "at Levin's TO DO," the gruesome job sheet listed tasks such as "tape mouth, handcuff, put gloves on, explain situation, kill dog." Hunt, 27, faces the death penalty or life imprisonment. Said he: "My only responsibility now is to keep my chin up. That's what I do best...
...intelligentsia. Because it is an ideology as well as a power system, apartheid needs the Afrikaner intelligentsia to explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than...
...never-ending problem to explain what the Brown curriculum is a about," he said. "When you're different it's incumbent upon you to explain what you're about...
SEVERAL HOURS later, as I pulled the hawg up to a stop alongside Red Square, I felt a twinge of worry that Yupi made it out of the hospital in time for the parade. How could I explain that I had only been joking around--that I had no idea he'd try to dodge me at the last minute, when I was about to swerve. He's probably livid...
...INSTRUCTIONS that the flight attendants bark out during every flight are equally stupid. For the benefit of anyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 20 years, the attendants explain how to put on a seatbelt. For the benefit of the very stupid, the attendants point out that it is wise to extinguish cigarettes before putting on an oxygen mask. For anyone anxious to struggle out of a seat and stand in the aisles for a half-hour while the landing crew tries to open the doors, the attendants suggest waiting until the plane has landed before...