Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irish Question (MARCH OF TIME) manages with particular clarity and detached sympathy to explain 1) Eire's neutrality, 2) her intense resentment at the recent U.S. demand that she expel German and Japanese consuls and envoys. Chief explanation: Eire is very old in oppression and bitterness, very young in political independence. Her nervy neutrality is a declaration of that independence which no amount of sympathy with...
...Supreme Commander, full and beaming, swigged the last drop of coffee and pushed back his half-eaten meal. He had broken his own rule. A tactful escort murmured about the mess regulation on food economy, which is enforced by slips inscribed: "Eat all you take on your plate or explain by endorsement here...
Maxwell's Demon could explain the peculiar antics of the coal and grant that hot coals flying about the room might ignite the window shades and the books in the bookcase ["Witchery in North Dakota," TIME, April 24], but really, isn't it a bit preposterous to assume that the dictionary's molecules would coincidentally happen to go in the same di rection at the same time? Has Dr. Gamow figured the odds on such a double accident...
...Tonight at dinner an officer who flew in from an advance base laughed heartily when I (a TIME correspondent) asked permission to read the copy he received yesterday hundreds of miles forward from his base (I had to explain that TIME copies rarely catch up with TIME'S own people out here). Everywhere I go officers of every grade enthusiastically greet the new edition as a great morale sustainer...
...Significant concession, this, on the part of [the] Cornell President, who has all along insisted that only proCommunists were available or properly equipped to explain Soviet Russia.. .. [This is] pretty clear recognition that Communist teaching at Cornell at least needs tempering. . . . Publicity and criticism are not wholly without . . . results...