Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when no one else could. There was a secret to it, but Uncle Row said: "Bless my soul, I'd explain it to you but you wouldn't understand...
...that time, Brynteson opposed a long poll because, he explained yesterday, "it would accomplish nothing more than a short poll." However, a motion by Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was voted upon before he could explain his objections, Brynteson claimed...
Until it hears of new inner sanctums around Boston, the group is simply reading about spooks. Members have access to special Widener stacks, where they spend several days translating old German and Spanish writings. The manuscripts explain every phase of ghostdom--how to hold black mass, how to catch a witch, and how to kill your maiden aunt with a handful of pins and some tobasco sauce...
Modern newspaper practises of trying to get everything into the first sentence and of listing fasts without attempting to explain their significance diminish the informativeness of newspapers and often mislead the reader, Lyons asserted...
...press conference called to explain his actions, Rocky gave a convincing demonstration of a man who didn't know what hit him. Why had he quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every...