Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was true, it helped to explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...
Perils of Innocent Bystanding. At Fort Riley, Kans., leisurely talking Private Levy Melvin of South Carolina politely escorted four men through a vaccination lineup, failed to explain his presence fast enough, came out all vaccinated up, again...
...introducing John W. Sullivan to the audience of 700 undergraduates and friends. "We are determined to shape the future by our own actions today. We shall take tomorrow in our strong hands and mold it to our own will." But he pointed out that "Idealism alone does not explain this will of ours; a clear sense of patriot self-interest is just as important. The dread of futility turns our minds to postwar planning. Though we have no specific details in mind, there are certain general principles on which most of us agree...
...gram of coal burning yields about 1/100th of a kilowatt hour.) This is ample to explain the sun's energy, and the supply is big enough to last 30 billion years at its present rate of consumption...
...disappeared. Last week, when he returned to Moscow and feverishly began cabling copy, the U.S. found out where he had gone-to Stalingrad, to become the first U.S. or British correspondent to eyewitness the Volga city's battered battlefields. How he got the break, Shapiro did not explain, but in his delayed and heavily-censored dispatches, datelined "With the Red Army on the Stalingrad Front," he predicted that Stalingrad would soon be entirely freed...