Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attempting to explain the role of the student organization and answer criticisms of it, Johnson spoke at great length about "the national student movement" NSA, he said, "acts on behalf of the students in protecting their interest where it is challenged...
...throughout his visit he was reasonable, firm and articulate. Even when Khrushchev turned from geniality to insolence, reversing what he called the Russian tradition of beginning a meal with tart foods and ending with sweet ones, Macmillan remained receptive yet firm. He had come, he said, to explain the position of the West and to learn at first hand the attitude of the Russians on the problem of Berlin and central Europe...
Graduate students will serve as advisers to the delegations. "Among these advisers we hope to obtain several foreign students who can explain the intricacies of their own country's foreign policy," Phillips noted...
Last week as the case neared trial, crew-cut Emmett Watson. 40, made himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A composite history of the dedicated gambler, with guest psychiatrist to explain what it all means...