Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy into an envelope and mailed it, hoping that thereafter everything would be all right. Of course the inevitable day came - a Monday afternoon when Chicago telephoned to ask blandly where was the copy? Four or five days later it turned up in Omaha-just why nobody could explain...
...course, these can be quibbled against because they do not represent, official tradition, but instead show that the war has taken precedence over such tradition in the minds of American students. But what of those who tried to explain what the Open Door meant in practice? It was just too bad for those who used the word "exploitation" because everyone knows that American businessmen have had only humanitarian motives in bringing the symbols of modern civilization to the home of the oldest culture in the world...
...from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...shell rang above us, the battalion commander climbed down into a slit trench and, with a flashlight held over a map, began to explain the situation to his company commanders...
...cannot, for obvious reasons, release details of the trial. However, a few general facts are known, facts which the Polish embassy in Washington has vigorously attempted to suppress. If ninety per cent of Harvard's undergraduates are uninformed on this incident, Mr. Passano should have undertaken to explain to them these facts...