Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please help me explain the following TIME statement to a group of wheat belt high-school students: "In short, labor has a good thing in the war, a better thing than any other large group except possibly the farmers...
Truest line in the book: "The books which will explain the new world we are entering have not been written...
...boards calls him in. Intelligent businessmen, many of whom are making more money than they intended or even hoped, usually welcome this invitation to renegotiate the contract at a lower price. If they don't, the board asks, in effect: How would you like to explain your profits to the Vinson or the Truman committee? Negotiation proceeds from there...
...Jinnah muezzined to the faithful: "A lot of propaganda has been going on in the press . . . Sir Stafford Cripps is a trained politician. . . . He has been holding press conferences giving explanations which are construed differently in different quarters and might prove harmful. I shall be compelled to explain the position to my people...
West Pointer (1915), pioneer Army tank officer and graduate of the service's best schools, Texas-born Eisenhower also has something that no school can give a soldier: common, practical sense. But common sense alone could not explain his swift and steady rise in the past six years to pivotal staff jobs. (Back in 1935 Douglas MacArthur picked him as his No. 2 man when he went to the Philippines as Commonwealth Military Adviser...