Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always palatable, either at home or abroad. The Allies do not enjoy hearing of strikes, Washington bungling, domestic political quarrels-but the Axis does. Yet Davis, reared under a free press, could not and would not suppress such facts. Thus one of his big problems is to explain the U.S. satisfactorily to the world...
...front, Davis can be no better than the Administration. On the foreign front, he can be no better than his nation's foreign policy. He has not yet made U.S. war aims sound much clearer than the foggy Atlantic Charter; he cannot be blamed for being unable to explain what the State Department is up to in North Africa...
...McCarthy took over with the September 30 issue, the weekly was clicking along. In trying to make it more of a magazine, he has dropped the front page headline and stresses features from boys in camp and oversease, news notes from their home towns. Occasional editorials give advice and explain policy, or, like the one a year after "the day the roof fell in," just sound off like editorials...
What they could not explain was the landscaping project which was going full blast last week. Between the Pentagon and the Potomac men were working with picks & shovels, bulldozers and trucks, moving tons of earth and stone, lugging in tons of grass seed...
...This may well explain the fact that both Roosevelt and Churchill, in their speeches last week, pointedly assured plain Germans they had nothing to fear from defeat. Said Roosevelt: ". . . We do mean to impose punishment and retribution in full upon their guilty, barbaric leaders...