Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German woman and her two children - a boy and a girl - walked toward their house in a village near the Rhine. A young U.S. officer, whose unit had commandeered the house, saw them coming and barked: "Go on, go on! Beat it!" The woman stopped and tried to explain in German , that she wanted something in the house. Again the officer ordered her away. The boy cried. The girl ran past the officer, marched up the front steps, and got a doll's buggy. As the woman and the children walked off, the officer turned to U.P. Correspondent...
...cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...
...sudden break sent market analysts rushing for paper & pencil to explain what had happened. A few pundits saw great significance in the fact that one wave of selling swamped the market minutes after the ticker had flashed the news that the U.S. First Army was across the Rhine. Their inference: good war news was bad news for speculators in war industries...
Since last May several U.S. doctors have reported babies with congenital eye and heart defects which they ascribed to German measles in the mother. In trying to explain why this tragic aftermath of a trifling disease was never noticed before, some doctors guess that an unusually virulent strain of German measles virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental...
Brilliant and melodramatic though these are, they seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...