Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, obviously, we have a morgueful of material on those subjects, but it would take a boxcar to deliver it to our hungry reader. The best we could do in his case was explain how to go about using the nearest public library...
While Kentucky's trap-jawed Congressman stubbornly ignored all invitations to testify before the Senate's Mead Committee, a whole array of Congressmen and Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...
...father announced with a proud disregard for facts and figures that 'if we all put our shoulders to the wheel we could see this country through without the Goddam loan from America.' I try to explain why I think the brave, prosperous British Empire era is on the wane, and badly needs the loan. He will have none of this, stoutly believes we will win through despite this Goddam Labor Government...
...Cabinet, the Reds supported President-Premier Bidault's stand opposing the Molotov plan. But as good Communists, they knew that Stalin was still Stalin and Molotov his prophet. Its faith unshaken, but its vital gift for rationalization badly disrupted, Communist Humanite babbled: ". . . no insoluble divergence. Subsequent discussions will explain these questions more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism...
...editors drew up an ad which, they trusted, would explain everything. Conclusion: "Needless to say, the New Republic, which stands for liberal democracy, does not share Mr. Browder's communist philosophy...