Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parties, the chairman apologized, saying that he had just run out of "5," in that district the number of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's opposition Polish Peasant Party. He added that 70% of the people had voted openly for No. 3, but he didn't attempt to explain who used all the opposition ballots he said he had distributed...
...Bill's job has been offered to an Englishman who has never worked for a newspaper. John Duncan Miller, 44-year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness...
Possibly he has "a malignant growth" in one cheek, Barkley continued to explain. At any rate, Mr. Bilbo must return to Mississippi. He might be there as long as two months. "I ask unanimous consent that his credentials lie on the table without prejudice and without action until such time as Mr. Bilbo may return...
Rushing out, they caught a glimpse of a fleeing man whom they presumed had taken alarm on being interrupted. Apprehended after a few blocks of uncertain pursuit at a trotting pace, the suspect turned out to be a graduate student of the Class of 1942, who has still to explain his evening's activities satisfactorily...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...