Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind is not blowing in our faces. We can wait for better weather." He did not explain that the Communists have no intention of waiting supinely while nature makes the weather. They had come to India not only as traveling salesmen, but also as rainmakers. One member of the Bulganin-Khrushchev party brought with him a letter of instructions (from Pravda Editor Dmitri Shepilov) now being secretly circulated among the leaders of India's estimated 60,000 Communist Party members. It refers to Jawaharlal Nehru as "our unconscious ally," outlines Communist strategy for swaying Nehru close to Soviet economic...
...this day Minter and Cox have not left. Their plans are not yet permanent, but they are hoping that a reversal of opinion will turn the town in their favor. A few respected local friends in the meantime are talking to people, trying to explain the plan of the cooperative farm and the type of work Minter and Cox are doing...
...course, the Depression and the mounting of world problems, coupled with an increasing undergraduate awareness of the magnitude and immediacy of such problems, were not at all conducive to a humorous perspective. But this alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were legion between the years 1910 and about 1930. It has been said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires...
...Adlai thought of making a simple statement that he was a candidate, but that might seem too wholly political. Perhaps he should explain, in a dignified manner, why he was running. And yet he did not want to skim the cream off his first post-announcement speech at the dinner. For two days, at his farm home in Libertyville, Ill., he labored over his pronouncement. Most of the time he worked alone, but on the second day he called in staff members and tried the statement on them. He decided it would not do, went to work on it again...
...Harvard Beats Washington and Lee in 700 Miss Ross" was a headline a few weeks ago in a Southern newspaper. The article beneath went on to explain that runners from the two universities did not race over a 700 mile course. They merely ran against the clock on their home tracks, then compared results; it was the times which traveled the 700 miles from one college to the other...