Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Know Your Way. Businessmen, Meany continued, might well study the A.F.L.-C.I.O. system of sending representatives abroad to explain free-trade unionism "and the ever-better conditions of life and labor in the American economic system . . . Believe me, [Europe's] cartel-ridden economies have no idea of what free enterprise really is-let alone how it works in the U.S. .... Why could it not be made clear to some of the [foreign] businessmen how it is impossible to get sales volume without the working people and the middle classes having adequate purchasing power...
...hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson had a heart attack, too ... Yet it seems quite okay with the New-Fair Dealers for Johnson to work like a horse as the heavily burdened leader of the Senate Democratic majority. How do you explain that, please...
Occasionally the Associate in Charge of Naming apparently just gets fed up with the whole business. How else to explain the position of Stanley M. Jacks, Special Lecturer without Title...
...will launch its space satellite. The Russians will shoot it down, then explain, "It looked just like a trial balloon" and pay half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim...
Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, did more to explain ordinary life in India than most of the year's nonfiction books on the subject put together. It was a tale of hunger and suffering, wholly lacking in bitterness, and creating quick sympathy for its peasant characters...