Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand herself in Washington's Federal District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
...Chapin had his own comments: "No one, except the blind and twisted, can fail to see that the Hungarian people are under the complete, total domination of a group of Moscow-trained Communists whose sole allegiance is to the Kremlin." Of the cardinal he said: "It is impossible to explain the transformation of that lion who was chief of the Hungarian Catholic Church...
Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
...there is a theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...
What he did not explain was that the "tipster" was his own tipster, and that he had printed the first item without even bothering to check the Mayor's license plate. Only readers with good memories would know that the second item was a correction of Winchell's month-old mistake...