Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
...polio cases hit an alltime high for the date (147 in the last week of April), and kept on doing so for six straight weeks. The cases among the children inoculated with Salk vaccine (mostly by Cutter) and among their contacts (a total of 422) were enough to explain this...
...politics, the job of running the paper fell to Mazzella, who was born in Oran, was a war cor respondent with the French army in Italy and the U.S. 9th Armored Division. On Mazzella, the French vigilantes centered their attacks. Shortly after he published an editorial trying to explain the political reasons for Moorish terrorism, a bomb was exploded on the balcony of his second-floor apartment. Next day his mail brought a warning from the French vigilantes: "That was just the beginning." Two months later, a friend on the police force burst into Mazzella's office, warned that...
...concertmaster. Shaw, at home with the instruments as never before, is using a baton for the first time. "I'm beginning to feel the orchestra in my fingers now," he said last week. "My fingers taste the sound; my ears taste the sound. I can't explain it-I just am closer." For Shaw this first permanent conducting is a combination training ground and experiment in audience acceptance. Instead of programming the light music usually served up to hot-weather audiences, he is putting San Diegans through a stiff summer course...
Harry Miner proved to be a singularly unrepentant witness. When asked to explain his smuggling activities, he roared indignantly: "You call bringing in a baby smuggling? That's giving a baby a home!" Even Estes Kefauver did not find an answer for that sentiment. But the hearings were by no means a total loss, since Kefauver managed to wind up with a virtuous line: "It's certainly a fine thing for kids to know about the Ten Commandments...