Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General George Marshall buttoned himself into his four-starred overcoat and went to Capitol Hill. He had to go and explain the Army's plan to expand to 8,200,000 officers and men by 1943's end. Honest, persuasive George Marshall, who enjoys as much Congressional confidence as any other U.S. military figure, apparently made a good job of it. After a two-hour secret session, members of the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees told newsmen that many a doubter of the Army's program was now a convert...
...denied that the War Department needed a building like the cobweb-shaped Pentagon. Washingtonians could even explain its intricate network of clover leaves and curlicues that wound and curved for some 28 miles about its five-story sides, its network of approaches that eliminate grade crossings. These had been planned and begun before rubber and gasoline shortages were real. But no one attempted to explain the $21,000,000 these roads and bridges would cost...
...said, "accept the views that a power is entitled to possess naval forces generally superior to those of others on account of the vastness of its overseas possessions and the extensiveness of the lines of communication it has to protect. If such a view were correct, how could one explain why there should be parity between Britain and the United States?" Nagano went home, Japan completed its present fleet-on a ratio limited not by treaty but by Japan's ability to compete industrially...
...disgruntled student summed up the situation this way: "I don't mind being drafted or rationed, but when I can't buy the kind of Valentine I want, the situation is really getting serious." The informant then went on to explain how he had spent hours looking for just the right card and could find nothing. Finally, in desperation he had been forced to cross out "To My Soldier Boy" on a card and put in his true one's name. "Goe," he concluded, "There's not a single good one on the Square that isn't to some soldier...
...right, so I'm a ninny ... I think I have never been so moved... I didn't say anything then. I couldn't explain it to them. Even if I could, it would have embarrassed them, anyway I had a lump in my throat. They took me home. We talked, we laughed...