Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors . . . forbade my indulging in any exercise whatever emotional in character. ... So I wish to explain to the people of this country, and to my fellows here, why I am quiet . . . in this great moment...
...Russian system often makes it possible for one doctor to follow a case from the operating room all the way to its cure. (But, the Russians explain, a switch in surgeons usually causes no trouble, as surgical procedure has been standardized in a series of Red Army handbooks...
Almost 50 men, mostly in the V-12 unit, came out for the first basketball meeting Wednesday night to hear Coach Floyd Stahl and Captain Dean Hennessy explain plans for the 1943 1944 basketball season...
...themselves felt. Doubt was cast on the cause of the singed hairs; the possibility was opened up that De Marigny might have touched the screen two days after the struggle in Sir Harry's bedroom, and the name of Grisou, an ash-grey Maltese cat, was introduced to explain away the light in Freddy's bedroom...
Each afternoon the boys have two hours with Shwe Waing, who is forbidden to theorize or explain. He just makes noises along lines laid down by Cornyn. The students talk back. If the back talk rings false, Shwe Waing calls for repetition until it sounds right to a Burmese ear. He can explain new words in terms of those already learned. The boys make careful notes of all sound effects in a phonetic alphabet, study them aloud in barrack dormitories, on the street, at meals. Bit by bit, somewhat as Burmese children do, but with the best of technical help...