Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ubico's famous Ley de Probidad (Law of Honesty) requires officials to register their property on taking office, explain each new acquisition. It has undoubtedly enforced a kind of terrified probity among underlings, but it has one flaw: in practice, it does not apply to Ubico. On becoming President, he declared himself worth $89,000. Now he owns 75,000 acres, is the largest individual landholder in Guatemala. Much of his property is valuable coffee and sugar land. He lists his acquisitions under the Ley de Probidad at ludicrous valuations. No one dares to challenge his figures...
...decision, Eisenhower has become even more confident, more incisive as his job grew. Few men can talk with his fluent clearness. His handling of press conferences makes good reporters beam with admiration. Before a complex operation he can take an airman, an infantryman and a naval officer, and rapidly explain to all three the peculiar requirements of their separate specialties far better than those specialists could hope to explain them to one another...
...carried this in with me and found it invaluable in establishing what ethnologists like to call rapport. The Lacandons were obviously curious about the land from which we came, and we showed them the pictures and tried to explain them. In return they gave us the information we needed. ... As a parting gift we left several items which they had esteemed highly; namely, a pair of blue jeans, two bars of soap, and the battered copy of TIME...
Everybody's Afraid. Many flyers found their sleep disturbed by "battle dreams," in which they relived grueling episodes of air combat. First therapy: the flight surgeon would encourage the sufferer to "talk" out his dreams and his experiences, and would explain that everyone taking off on a combat mission, from the seamiest veteran to the quivering first-timer, was in some degree afraid. If that did not work, he was grounded and sent to a rest home where sports, occupational therapy, indoor games, etc., were designed to take his mind off himself...
...sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...