Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sure that none of his American customers ever got any such specimen of Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...
Said a London cockney: "He certainly knows how to talk to common people." Said Winston Churchill (according to one report): Wallace is "a crypto-Communist -one who has not got the courage to explain the destination for which he is making."* Wallace's retort: "I am a progressive Tory...
Undergraduates will get a chance to participate in six weeks of democratic study and practice this summer in a program which Algernon D. Black '23, educational director of the Encampment for Citizenship, will explain in a talk at the Phillips Brooks chapel at 8:30 o'clock Thursday...
...After seeing faces like theirs, you don't feel like going to an operetta in the evening." In Tallinn, every five years, the people used to gather for Laulupidu (singing festivals), with 15,000 singers and 3.000 orchestra members (see cut). Now, there are no more Laulupidu; Estonians explain that it is hard to find enough male voices...
...this broad land-geographically that is-Latin is in cupa favillarum,' complained Franklin P. Adams. The situation is so serious, he added, that he had better explain what he meant: translated literally, Latin was "in the can of ashes...