Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom. Next day Secretary of State Dean Acheson tried to explain to his press conference just what the official U.S. position was. In a long and ambiguously worded statement he implied that the U.S. was largely deferring to the attitude of Western Europe. "The fact of the matter was," he declared, "that a government was established in Spain which was patterned on the regimes in Italy and in Germany and was, and is, a Fascist government and dictatorship . . ." Point by point, he ticked off the Western democracies' indictment of the Franco regime. It denied the writ of habeas corpus...
...meet will probably be as close as any this season, the team hastens to explain, for Yale's team is fairly strong and liberally scattered with stars. The records of the two teams throws little light on tomorrow's outcome, as there is no common opponent against which the Crimson and the Blue can be compared...
...Pitman model would be on display. The miniatures are now used to illustrate historical lecture series sponsored in the towns by Filene's. Presently, Pitman is working on a job for the Museum of Science in Boston which will open in about a year. It is a model to explain how the pyramids were constructed and is one of the most interesting engineering problems Pitman has come across. He is trying to show how it was physically possible to haul the huge blocks to the top of the giant pyramids...
...wanted to explain this picture of the festival of bulls to Americans. As a painter, he first thought of drawing pictures of it, but he changed his mind. What he wanted to show was not just a painting of the festival. He wanted to explain how the bulls affect the lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave...
With probably the biggest beef of all, Ed Wynn ("The Perfect Fool") argues that in 1913 he originated Milton's whole format of introducing all the acts and playing a buffoon in each of them. While displaying an old scrapbook of his jokes, Milton was recently asked to explain a page headed: "Ed Wynn Jokes." Said he: "Those are some jokes Ed Wynn once gave me." Says Wynn in Hollywood: "I never gave him any jokes, nor did I give him permission to steal my life's work...