Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticize Dick Nixon. Said Dulles, "I do not think it wise that current aspects of foreign policy should be injected in the campaign." Dulles added specifically that Nixon's Chicago statement "might fit without the limits which I hope both sides would observe." Later Dulles phoned Nixon to explain that he had not meant to be critical, next day put out a confusing statement that Nixon was only replying to Democratic criticisms and "in those circumstances I fully concurred in the need for that answer...
...judge from current plans, producers will be working the Oriental gimmick to death, bringing new East-of-Suez shows to town far into spring. "Damned if I can explain it," says Producer Irene Selznick, one of the few who has yet to find a place in the new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. "But it's good for international relations." Says Agent Rivers: "Sometimes it's all the great unwashed. This season it's Orientals. When this phase is over I'll be left on my tail...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Disappointed missile scientists were at a loss yesterday to explain what happened to the Army's latest space venture--an attempt to blast a Beacon balloon satellite into orbit...
...democratic spirit that made Al Smith an American reality, the two gentlemen said that were soliciting for contributions to the Harry T. Levin Ping-Pong Ball endowment, which, as is well known by now, ensures that no Harvardman need ever go without. How can I attempt to explain the fullness of heart I felt, the soaring elation, indeed the titillation? In the pleasure of pledging my dollars, I smiled all over that...
Galbraith, who recently returned from a two and one-half month trip through Latin America, discounted claims that the problems in Nixon's "unhappy journey of last spring" were the result of a deeper resentment of the United States. "We do ourselves serious injustice if we seek to explain away a strong popular dislike for Mr. Nixon by saying it applies to the country as a whole...