Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Illusion to Reality. The U.S. record since V-J day was a record of failure to seize & hold the initiative. Next to Marshall himself, there was no one better qualified to understand that record, and explain it, than Bob Lovett. As Under Secretary, he had been for the past nine months the prime executor of U.S. policy. As Marshall's second-in-command, and Acting Secretary for the 129 days that Marshall had been away from his post, Lovett had also carried the load of day-to-day decisions. His career as Under Secretary of State spanned three...
Coach Barclay will outline proposed activities for the year at a meeting in Eliot House at 7:30 o'clock tonight, and explain the two-week competition which will determine the squad for this year...
...carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic of the eleventh century. Vag read on eagerly...
...join them. "No. Big hour exam in political polity," said Vag. They started throwing the ball around, often narrowly missing Vag, who had lost track completely. He put down the book and lay back on the grass, thinking. Was it just possible that political polity could not explain absolutely everything, for example Spring, or the girl who was walking towards him and waving. She was not waving at him, but she reminded him of a girl he had met about the same time last year, and one about the same time the year before. And this year? Well, who could...
...glanced disgustedly at the grubby book, which was fresh from the shelves of Widener. The book had a certain amount of presumption, he thought, in claiming to be able to explain anything to him Especially when a soft wind was bending the grass down before it and the stores on Mass. Ave were showing bright Spring ties in their windows. Vag got up slowly, realizing that the grass was damper than he had thought. He fingered his book, overcame an impulse to hurl it into the Charles, and started back across the Drive. You could throw a lot of bull...