Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rights. Now M.P.s in white painted jeeps patrol Chungking's main street. They work with the Chinese police whose orders are to break up demonstrations. The municipal government is planning to license eight dance halls (heretofore banned) to give Americans some safe recreation. It is also trying to explain to the Chinese people that the Americans are a curious people who just want to talk and go out with women. Said Chungking's Mayor Ho Yao-tsu: "Americans, coming from a freedom-loving country, respect the equality of sexes and regard proper social contacts as natural. There...
Among other things, a speeding thyroid increases nervous tension. The Jerusalem rats may therefore help to explain why New Yorkers are fratchy in July and why a man who commits murder in Naples when the sirocco is blowing can hope for lenient treatment in court...
Nobody could quite explain the Dodgers' second-place splurge. They had been doped to waddle along in seventh place, or worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...
...Times hastened to explain that, in dropping "Old and True" right after V-E day it had neither forgotten nor undervalued the Japanese war. It merely meant, said the Times, that "the course of the struggle in the East is not to be easily or aptly annotated from the experience of the West...
...acts out his scripts for the brothers, whose respect for his literacy is reverent; and he doesn't even have to do that for Monogram, which merely distributes for him. It is a very pretty pitch indeed, as Yordan will explain: "In the small-picture field there is a fixed gross, that is, you can almost tell how much you're going to make to a penny. I plan to use it as an experimental theater...