Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that sooner or later the market would reflect fat earnings (which are generally continuing) with a healthy spurt. But last week's drop changed many minds or clouded the crystal ball completely. One expert, who glibly tosses off words like "velocity ratings," "gaps." "double tops," "recoil," etc. to explain the market, finally gave up. Said he: "Frankly, I don't know what's happening. I'm baffled...
Poet Laureate Robert Bridges once fired a snooty spitball at all highbrows who peep into the boudoir of Art and try to "explain" her naked mysteries...
...Britain, where he had gone to sign the treaty, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr hopefully remarked that "during our temporary absence, some destructive elements in the country . . . exploited some innocent students and succeeded in creating disorders. On our return to Iraq we shall explain the ... treaty to Parliament and people...
...looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
...fields." Everywhere, they found dogged, friendly people, willing to share their bread and cabbage, anxious to hear about America and full of misconceptions about it, instilled by the Russian press. Again & again they were asked: "Will the U.S. attack us?" Again & again they had to explain why the U.S. does not believe in controlling its press or regimenting its people...