Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he got aboard the train. He was allowed more drinks in the diner, became "intoxicated and insouciant," and that's what led him to armed robbery, she argued. She didn't mention that George was on probation from an Ohio reformatory or explain why he was packing a pistol...
Writing primarily for Britons, the Economist does not have to explain why this process no longer works in their country. Had it needed to, the Economist could have turned to some figures released last week by the Oxford University Institute of Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality...
...consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets of censors. Lomakin ticked them off: first the Post Office Department, secondly businessmen and advertisers, and thirdly the State Department. He quoted Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. as "admitting to me personally that the U.S. has the worst censorship." Professor...
Beloff, who had said no more than many U.S. educators had been saying since U.S. collegiate enrollments began to boom a generation ago, did not explain what, if anything, could be done about...
...door for autographs. When they wanted the signature of Mexican Cowboy Singer Negrete, hundreds of them piled right up on the stage. But they are avid practitioners of the U.S. custom of whistling in approval. The piercing whistles once drove a singer to tears when Manager Montalban forgot to explain beforehand that this was not the traditional Latin catcalling...