Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidents of the imperial universities have been summoned to Tokyo to explain why Japan's inventors have not kept up with the U.S. and British scientists. Said Tojo to the luckless educators: "A change in attitude . . . should be made. [You must] comply with these demands of the nation...
...soon as the labor leader returns to Texas, the case will start on its way up through the courts. But J. Frank Dobie, Texas University's famed English professor and maverick, who will soon go to Oxford to explain American civilization, has already rendered his verdict. Said Dobie: "A man can come to Texas and without interference invite all the people he wants to join the Republican Party, the Liar's Club, the Association for the Anointment of Herbert Hoover as Prophet, almost any kind of organization except one. If the Manford Law is an index of capitalism...
...fighting men have strong feelings about strikes. "They ask you to explain. They say, 'Why is this? We don't understand. We need this stuff to fight with, to defend our lives with.' I don't think I saw a boy who justified any strike,, but their approach was always reasonable. They are the most reasonable people I have ever...
...hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...
Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage...