Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
...eyed Munoz, founder and president of the Popular Democratic Party, speaks the jibaro's language. His friends say that he could explain the Einstein theory so that a child-or a jibaro-could understand it. His faith in the jibaros is almost mystical, but he knows they must...
...announcement had the ring of a radio commercial. After completing the new courses, students would be able to "inquire like scientists, reason like philosophers, explain like historians, or imagine like poets and artists." Even if they had never been to college before, they could also sport a new degree-Ph.A., Associate of Philosophy...
...music and his personality had a sprightliness that led his admirers to call him "the Italian Mozart." Few musicians passed through Paris in the 1860s without paying their respects to the great Rossini. When Richard Wagner called, and tried to explain his newfangled ideas, Rossini told him grandly: "What you are saying is the funeral oration of melody...
...next 30 years, Kiddy was a warm friend and admirer of Pussy and Lovey, and his book explains his friendship and admiration. It doesn't explain (no one has, convincingly) why Stein-worshipers such as Thornton Wilder regard her as one of the most brilliant conversationalists of our time. It contains sections of literary approval of Author Stein's writings, but its main aim, which it fulfills very well, is to show why so many people, from Picasso to the average G.I., found Pussy and Lovey such a fascinating and lovable pair...