Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misunderstanding. The police had issued a formal order to newspapers not to publish: 1) Congress debates on foreign policy and the state of siege; 2) the fact that they were thus forbidden (TIME, June 8). Then the Senate protested, called on Minister of the Interior Miguel J. Culaciati to explain...
Food-Weapon of Conquest (Warwick Pictures; United Artists), a propaganda documentary film, makes a thrilling story of the role of food in World War II and after. Lucid, instructive, it is just what the U.S. Department of Agriculture might have ordered to explain its new wartime strategy for the land. It was made, not in Hollywood, but in Canada...
...They know that what they are looking for is there, somewhere: a planet as big as Earth, but some 35 times farther from the sun (well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both of which were postulated by astronomers before telescopes sighted them...
...critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved in poetry and mysticism, what he failed to achieve...
...this the Russians called "fantastic." They counted more than 90,000 Germans killed or captured, 540 tanks and 200 planes knocked out of action. A few more such German "victories," said the Russians, would put Germany out of the war. It was a brave explanation, but it did not explain the weeks- the Russians must have spent preparing for the Kharkov push. To the question the whole world asked-could a Russian offensive be maintained...