Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy. One factor helped decide him: most of the magazine's regular departments (films, theater, books, etc.) were in the summer doldrums. Ross was a little afraid that Hersey's sympathetic piece on the Hiroshima Japanese might sound a little anti-American-so he got Hersey to explain why the U.S. dropped the bomb...
When Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia took the air to explain the Government's decision, eight machine-gunners seized Radio Argentina, cut the wires, and stopped his broadcast there (though not over the rest of the network...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...Dump. Just why A.T. & T. had dropped first and farthest was easier to explain. Since June, announcement of new financing has almost invariably been followed by a drop in the stock of the company concerned. When Montgomery Ward and American Home Products announced new issues, stockholders went on a selling spree; Monky Ward's stock dropped 21½ points and American Home Products fell 22½ points. A.T. & T. stockholders last week were of the same temper. They looked beyond the $2 billion expansion program (reason for the new financing) to see its effect on A. T. & T. earnings...
Dear friends, have you considered the consequence of your epithet? How can I explain it to my wife? "But dear, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my children? "Daddy, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my literary executors? "The painful fact is that, in spite of his eminence, the Harvard Crimson called him dull." And suppose I were not married: "Oh, sir. No, sir. The Crimson called you dull...