Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens are buying more proprietary medicines (drugs sold without prescription) than ever before. Last week drug companies, Government officials and medical men were unable to explain the swelling demand for arnica, eyewash, ipecac and milk of magnesia...
Below Stalingrad Kerr found 44-year-old, stocky Lieut. General Rodion Yakovlievich Malinovsky, a onetime Czarist soldier who fought beside a U.S. division in France during World War I. Kerr asked General Malinovsky to explain the Red Army's power...
...British, but because it is good and will be better yet. . . . We are no greedy exploiters. ... I would credit us with a humane, decent, fair-minded attitude toward the less advanced peoples in our charge. The colonial record has had blots and blemishes. . . . But no one can explain the progress that has taken place . . . except by recognizing the operation of motives and policies quite other than commercial...
Because their drawings speak an international language, Disney's party had little difficulty making itself understood. But one rainy day Musician Wolcott tried to explain to an Argentine innkeeper that he wanted to borrow an umbrella by drawing one. The innkeeper nodded, soon returned with a broiled steak and mushrooms...
...thing even E tu Destino could not explain-the sense of loss that brooded above Mount Allegro, the feeling of being strange and alien in a strangely alien land. At school the second generation were told that if they were born here they were American, but "then one day one of your new teachers looked at you brightly and said you were Italian because your last name was Amoroso and that too was puzzling." You talked it over with your father but he wasn't very helpful. "Your children will be Americani, but you, my son, are half...