Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions. These small glimpses helped to clarify disaster on the grand scale. But they did not explain every thing. The Germans knew they were short of manpower and materials of many crucial kinds, especially airplanes, tanks and fuel. They knew the Soviet offensive was coming. Had they properly sounded the depths of their own weakness, accurately measured the potential of Soviet power...
...filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...
...Paul and the Law. Last fortnight it was City Supervisor Edward Manusco's turn to read a chapter and explain to his colleagues what it meant to him. Then City Supervisor Chester MacPhee, acting as moderator, asked members to give their comments. The chapter, which concerns original sin, precipitated a warm discussion. Municipal Judge Daniel Shoemaker contended that from the legal point of view a person is innocent until proved guilty, that therefore a newborn baby cannot be sinful. Said David Lewis after the meeting: "That chapter is a tough one. But it made some of those guys think...
...Fifth War Loan needed a shot in the arm. D-day had come and gone, spurring individuals to buy a vast swatch of E bonds. The B-29 raid on Japan sold several million dollars worth more, leading the Tokyo radio to explain that the U.S. bond drive was "one of the greatest swindles in American history." But now sales were lagging almost everywhere. So the Treasury Department razzle-dazzled a lukewarm public with more & more sex, sentiment and stunts...
Whether or not they could explain it, the phenomenon itself was an old story to airmen. They have known for some time that mankind has caught up with the speed of sound and is being catapulted by the airplane into a weird, high-speed unknown which plays some very strange tricks...