Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavs get word that the Italians are going to destroy anything, they will force their way across our lines and then we'll be in a hell of a spot. I've tried to explain to the Italians. But it's damn difficult to convince them...
Sleek, supercilious Pierre-Etienne Flan-din had four days last week in which to explain his 56-day term as Vichy's Foreign Minister. In the hot, jammed Haute Cour at Versailles, the 57-year-old former Prime Minister and prewar leader of the French Right alternately explained and extolled his political tactics of the last decade...
...pictures in the Rio show are a documentary gallery of Brazilian plantation life. They also explain the steps by which Ayres is growing up as a painter, identify the bigger men to whom he is still in debt. His cubism comes from early shoulder-rubbing with modernism; having once tried to paint like Mexican Diego Rivera, he has not got over it yet. But much in the pictures is his own. Even more than imagination, the paintings show enormous sympathy for the simple laborers, sure understanding of their lives and myths. The themes of the best of them are primitive...
Juan Trippe did not explain why, but the reason leaked out. For the second time in eight years, there had been a revolt against Trippe's one-man rule of Pan Am. And, for the second time, Juan Trippe...
...when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account of Altgeld's life. The American contributes "interpretive" moments and prose passages that sound like Upton Sinclair...