Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alsace, Allied propaganda leaflets asked the German soldiers: "What are you doing fighting here?", and went on to explain that Germany was gravely in need of good fighting men on the eastern front...
...many an apprehensive U.S. businessman who was using German and other foreign developments to implement the fight against the Axis, the timing of Biddle's lawsuit was as hard to explain as his suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt...
According to the veteran journalist, who has spent 20 years in the field, these men will be needed "to analyze and explain to the public the proposals worked out after the war for achieving world peace and making our economic machine function." "Newspapermen," he believes, "need four important assets: a good working knowledge of the profession, an inquisitive mind, a cynical skepticism, and an ability to write plain English...
Doctors think that pigeons may explain many cases of hitherto unexplained virus pneumonia. But so far no one has recommended shooting all the pigeons in City Hall Park-possibly because if the pigeon ornithosis were really serious everyone would have been dead long...
...took to steady tippling. They frisked about unsteadily, waved their paws erratically, grew belligerent, at length fell into a drunken stupor. These drunkards enforced were cats, and their scientifically controlled behavior, according to the man who made them drunkards (Psychiatrist Jules H. Masserman of the University of Chicago), helps explain why men take to drink...