Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, it seems to me, is due directly to the failure of our educators and clergy, who should now cease to recoil from established facts in pious horror, and should now, late as it is, attempt to factor out, explain, and teach fundamental causations...
Jaedke tried to shake hands with Mitchell. The blind veteran refused. When Jaedke tried to explain that he was acting on orders, men in the crowd yelled: "We'll throw out the whole school board...
Because his officers have failed to explain what the Corps is doing in China, Janes spends many of his 20 offduty hours writing more letters than he has ever written before-to his parents, his friends, Senators and Congressmen. He wants them to find out for him why he is in China and how long he can expect to be there...
Like the Register's policy makers, the Almanac's refused to explain choices. But they were not, they insisted, motivated by any "sense of snobbishness or feeling of superiority...
Like most experts, Variety's muggs find it difficult to explain themselves. (A mugg, reviewing a picture, must report whether 1) it will sell; 2) it is worth seeing-with the accent on the former.) Sime tried to define the requirements 15 years ago: "To be a mugg you've got to fit. ... A mugg can be practical and idealistic at the same time. Maybe you got to be a little bit goofy to be that...