Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...
...light of all this, China-wise businessmen found it hard to explain why Hunt was bowing out now. Some put it down to increasing exchange difficulties, the threat of China's new and retroactive company law (TIME, Nov. 26). Others thought the reputed $3 million sale price reason enough. Best explanation probably came from Hunt himself: somewhere he saw bigger fields and greener lands...
...questions from the radio audience. It not only gets them (450 a day); it also finds how little the Japs were told in wartime. Sample questions: What is the truth about the battle of the Coral Sea? Will you tell us how American forces landed on Saipan and explain the progress of fighting there? What happened to all the fighting ships of the Japanese Navy...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...
...Wladyslaw Anders, commanding the Polish Army in Italy, flew to London from his headquarters last week. He was turned away from the Savoy by a clerk who had never heard of him, finally found a room elsewhere. Two days later he sat grimly listening to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin explain that the Anders army must be disbanded at once...