Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reiterated the age-old cry, "Since most bettors lose, why do they keep at it?" Is it really necessary to bring in such abnormalities as masochism to explain that? The struggle to win, with its failures and successes, its climaxes and debacles, its endless variety of patterns, provides one of the most fascinating and exciting forms of amusement known...
...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee turned up a juicy bit. Russia, it found, had refused to return, or pay for, the 95 ships lent to her during the war, despite repeated requests from the State Department. Roaring mad, the committee threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Marshall to explain...
...first time, Victor Manuel learned that travelers are supposed to have passports and visas to cross borders. But people did not bother to explain things to him. They just locked him up in jail and wrote letters about him. In the end he was sent back to Mexico. There he served a jail term. Then the Mexicans persuaded Guatemala to take him back. In Guatemala he served another jail term...
...bride's family. The Bank's twelve full-time executive directors wear the Bank's pants-like twelve mothers-in-law. The president (under the Bretton Woods regulations) does little more than take orders. If he wants to do anything on his own, he must dutifully explain all about it to the directors. Many people thought the president should have more power to go with his responsibilities; nobody quite knew how to arrange it without revising Bretton Woods...
...lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they are warned off by bullets. When Farmer Robinson's sister (Judith Anderson) is killed, his mind goes to pieces and so, to some extent, does an otherwise good movie. But in the course of his mental crackup, Robinson does explain why the door of the Red House should have stayed shut...