Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram of what he called a "prehension" or to explain patiently what he meant by such Whiteheaded concepts as the "form of flux...
...hiding place in Munich last week, Dr. Paul told a TIME correspondent that he could explain everything. When he was president of Thuringia, he said, the Russians had provided him with an "assistant" who put through Soviet policy in Paul's name. As for disrupting the Munich conference: "I was coerced to lead the walkout against my wishes." And his opposition to the Marshall Plan? "I am and always have been for the Marshall Plan. My name was affixed to the proclamation without my knowledge or consent...
...first morning 275 came. By the end of last week, the church was packed every morning with as many as 350 men in overalls and business suits. "It's hard to explain," said Wayne Slankard, "but this Christmas in Neosho has more meaning somehow than any we can remember...
Since Copernicus, scientists, in trying to explain away the miracle of Christmas, have only increased the mystery. So most modern painters-the expressionists who try to satisfy themselves with flaunting their own fragile tatters of personal experience, and the abstractionists who take refuge in a pseudo-scientific picture of life as a composition of light rays and whirling particles-necessarily hide their gifts at Christmas. The only truth that many of them recognize is in the atom, which gives off not radiance but radioactivity...
Bills of Production. Under the attack, publicity-shy Sosthenes Behn broke a tradition of more than 20 years. He called a press conference to explain matters. The lack of dividends, said he, was caused by the company's hoarding of cash against possible loss on its foreign assets. He pointed out that l.T. & T. had paid off $120 million in debts in the last 15 years. Last year's loss was entirely the result of production problems in Federal Telephone & Radio Corp., a U.S. manufacturing subsidiary...