Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President went on to explain. He was not in favor of special conferences, he said, and never had been. It was special conferences which wrecked the League of Nations, and he wanted the United Nations Organization to work. Therefore UNO would take over matters previously transacted at Big Three meetings. If UNO works as it should, said the President, there would be no need for any other international conferences. And he thought UNO could take over within 90 days...
...Committee. Major General Leslie Groves, military father of the atomic bomb, was asked about that interesting possibility: a too-successful chain-reaction explosion that might destroy the world (TIME, Dec. 3). Said the General: "If it happens, it will all be over-and we won't have to explain that...
...picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out interest, he cannot distill feeling or significance. The theme of his play is a sense of comradeship which is not just part of a code and which tough, cynical soldiers can no more escape than they can explain. But Playwright Brown cannot explain it for them-or even make it seem real...
...many people knew what was wrong, but nobody could really do anything about it. Whatever words William Orton may use to charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that he had ceased to be a liberal. He is explaining how one great category of liberal minds-the scientists-came to make the atom bomb and how liberal mankind...
...Cabinet tried to explain why the tubing tariff had been increased: the Government was seeking merely to protect an industry which had grown up during the war. When they had heard the Cabinet's explanation, the delegation warned the Government that unless the new tariff increases were promptly rescinded, they would vote against the budget...