Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
Abbott grinned as the House roared, and waited patiently for the clamor to subside to let him explain some of his reasoning. The middle-income brackets had been given the most careful consideration because they include so many people on fixed salaries, who have gained least in the economic expansion since 1939. Also, they include young men in science, business and the professions who are most readily lost...
...brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand in an impatient gesture-how could she explain a self-evident fact to these fortunate, blissfully ignorant Americans...
When the four Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
Excuses are dealt with just as arbitrarily. If the wretch attempts to explain that he never received the notice, an official looks at the file; and if a duplicate is found, the student is considered to have received his copy, all protests to the contrary. Lehman Hall must send accounts to 15,000 men, and of these only 400, or three percent, ever receive the drastic second notice. Yet there is no attempt to cover possible margins of error by sending a simple warning before slapping on a fine...