Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leach had been connected in one way or another with the Defense Department and the Air Force, in addition to holding his Law School post, for a number of years. He wrote to President Pusey in the fall of 1953 to explain an idea which he had thought about for several years. In the letter he explained that every department of the government had some form of unofficial academic tie, with people working in the field and conducting research pertaining to the work of a particular area of the department. Only the Defense Department lacked a breeding ground for future...
...Moore-not driving, but riding herd on an anxious manufacturer's best mechanics, coaching teams of professional drivers. Each was out to prove that the car he was handling was the nimblest and/or fastest on the road (leaving it to the auto industry's pitchmen to explain that added speed somehow means added safety...
...McCarthy, badly hurt in Wisconsin by his vote for the gas bill, found it necessary to explain a $2,000 contribution he received in 1952 from a man named N. B. Keck. Joe professed uncertainty as to whether his donor was the H. B. Keck who is president of Superior Oil, but said that, in any event"I assume he was contributing because of my fight against Communism...
...proud toy-poodle owner, who also happens to be a hi-fi fan, tried to explain the phenomenon at the Garden last week: "This is one more sign of what you might call sophistication for the masses. The poodle is purely and simply a luxury dog: no suggestion of proletarian practicality; no good for hunting, at least not any more; no good for herding sheep; no good for tracking convicts. The American people are getting more of the good things in life all the time-things that used to belong to the aristocracy: sailboats, golf, good music. Why not poodles...
Henry Lamar, University Boxing Coach since 1931 and present Boxing Commissioner of Massachusetts, yesterday pointed out that "there just weren't any more teams in our league left to play. Everyone was giving it up." This story, he added, might explain why these colleges were no longer interested in the sport...