Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have my own troubles, too. I have to explain when I'm half an hour late from the movie. But when I stay home we fight. So I'm just living until the day Herb comes back. We used to gripe about our house: the roof leaked, we needed new screens, and all that. Well, just give me any old house now. Anything, anything...
Blaze had crossed the Atlantic, as Elliott had said, in a Fortress commanded by the President's second son.* Hal George was careful to explain that Blaze had deprived no one of a place on that trip...
...good grey New York Times appeared a picture of Curtiss-Wright's new XP-55 experimental fighter (see U.S. AT WAR). The Times ran a five-line headline to explain solemnly why the new backside-to plane is called the Ascender...
Hell popped. Winston Churchill thundered at King Peter, his onetime protege. Ambassador Patterson visited the King day after day, trying to explain that the U.S. had not expected and now deplored his breaking with Tito just before the second Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. Peter swallowed his pride and consulted his displeased parent, Queen Mother Marie. At Egham House in Surrey, Mr. Subasich had an emotional session with the King and the ladies of the royal family: Queen Mother Marie; Peter's young wife, pregnant Queen Alexandra; and her mother, Greek Princess Aspasia...
...asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain in one day," he asked practically, " what has not been explained in four thousand years...