Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long as the story it referred to. As printed, it was half a column long...
...Gets Boring." I tried to explain that according to our ideas of democracy, peoples should be allowed to do things as they wanted, not as someone else thought was in their interests. Neither Morozov nor the Major understood. Even after the sixth vodka they didn't understand. These Russian counterparts of Britain's Indian Civil Service saw things with eyes so different that they could be worried only by the possibilities of a major conflict with America. When brought right down to it, they were frustrated because the Poles, many of them, did not seem to appreciate...
...long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight...
...pathological fog is more than he or anybody else can do. Oscar's homosexual tastes and his literary personality are hardly separable, however true it may be that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd when they married in 1884, and "delighted" in Cyril and Vyvyan, their...
...ruling class of my country, I felt a sense of guilt. . . . My decision to break with the Soviet regime-amounting to a personal declaration of war against that and all police-states-was not accidental. It was implicit in all I had been and thought and experienced. . . . To explain it I must rehearse my whole life and the life of Russia as it touched mine...