Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...
...Douglas MacArthur it seemed scarcely strange that his life should have come full circle. Last year, trying to explain to a reporter how he felt about the Philippines, he roared: "When George Dewey sailed into Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 it was Manifest Destiny working itself out. By God, it was Destiny that brought me here! It was Destiny...
...that each German soldier in frozen Norway has had to give up one of his three blankets for use in Russia. He did not tell of a new rubber-saving rule which forbids workers living within two miles of their jobs to cycle to work. He did not explain why some German planes shot down over Britain have inefficient wooden propellers...
...Deadwood, S.D. came Gale B. Wyman to explain about $525 he got while his father, Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman, was presiding over the perjury trial. Wyman first denied, then admitted that he was paid the money so that he would influence his father "to get the result they wanted in the case...
...Cleveland a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado was called off.* Washington an opera company decided to go ahead with the show, but to explain in program notes that it depicts "the Japanese in the light that history now records - sly, wily and deceitful, unconscionably corrupt and treacherous...