Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai woman asked her college-educated daughter to explain what elections were all about. She was told: "For instance, the alley is dirty. You elect a man who will speak of it before the National Assembly and have it cleaned...
...lyrical over what he sees. "Water," says Pieter, "seems to give off vibrations which appear like beams of moonlight striking through a window pane. A gold reef appears like a black ridge. Diamonds give off individual vibrations. I cannot explain them." A Johannesburg mining syndicate was well content to let the explanations go, provided Pieter's sharp eyes continued to seek out treasures. They put the boy under contract as a dowser...
...directly to the third-floor palace apartment of President Ramón Grau San Martin. Later, he came out, smiling. Said he: "Grau is content with my conduct before the Senate." In the Senate, Labor Minister Prio Socarrás had been called on the carpet last week to explain why he threw the Communists out of Havana's Labor Palace last August (TIME, Aug. 11). He told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time...
Chief U.S. Delegate Bill Benton patiently tried to explain the U.S. viewpoint: "We believe in unrestricted mingling of cultures-mutual sharing on the basis of equality. [We don't] want to create one common culture which would standardize the entire world...
...feelings of the team as we enter the Yale game, I would say that we are determined. We're determined to prove to ourselves and to the University that as disappointing as the season has been, we have a fine squad. We're not trying to alibi or explain-we simply mean to win. JOHN JUDKINS (manager): When we leave for New Haven this morning, there well be but one thought in our minds-beat Yale. The team is in the beat mental and physical shape of the season. If the student body will back us tomorrow, I'm sure...