Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Ryan and her hecklers were only putting on a demonstration, at the National Catholic Evidence Conference. But this summer she was doing the real thing in North Carolina-standing up on street corners to win converts to Catholicism, or at least explain away prejudice against...
...Kiska from his wife asking him for a divorce. A pilot in the Thirteenth Air Force on Guadalcanal, also married for a long time, got a letter from his wife whom he hadn't seen for 18 months saying, 'I'm pregnant. I'll explain when...
...lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales tickets on the coiled hempen ropes down which no one had ever had to make a fire escape...
Forcemen were satisfied with the job the outfit had done. Beyond its combat deeds, the inspiration it had given to other outfits could not be measured. But fighting men had a word to explain the outfit's success. The word was "guts...
...were stifled. But anything which could turn Frenchmen against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...