Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
...People Not Without Sin." Ivanov tried to explain his downfall by his father's sins. "He was a small bourgeois," explained Ivanov, "a member of the Democratic Party. He left his mark...
Food for Thought. Liana had three months, in which she did not hear from him, to think about Tom Ridgeway. Then she sailed for England. Before Tom had gone to Greece he had been engaged to an English girl. Now Tom explained to Liana that he had not yet had the courage to break off his engagement with his English fiancee. However, Tom took Liana to meet his father, a retired clergyman, and his mother. They took Liana's part and gave Torn the courage to explain the situation to the other girl. The engagement of Tom and Liana...
...National Assembly, a non-Communist deputy asked if Thorez was "a candidate for the post formerly held in this country, when occupied by a foreign army, by a certain Pierre Laval." The Assembly, of which Thorez is a member, summoned him to explain himself. He repeated almost word for word the statement he had made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence...
...known or cared about the two professors who had been fired at Oregon State College. A few weeks ago President A. L. Strand had simply told them that, after June, their yearly contracts would not be renewed. Since he had given them "timely notice," he saw no reason to explain...