Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisdom of going ahead with the H-bomb, Teller has words of firm faith: "We would be unfaithful to the tradition of Western civilization if we were to shy away from exploring the limits of human achievement. It is our specific duty as scientists to explore and to explain . . . The construction of the thermonuclear weapon was a great challenge to the technical people of this country. To be in possession of this instrument is an even greater challenge to the free community in which we live. I am confident that, whatever the scientists are able to discover or invent...
...place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the missing volume. Some of these men go so far as to sit on a book all afternoon so as to be sure of having it later on. There is no need of explaining why such practices as these are disgraceful. Inasmuch, however, as some students are not acute enough to see it, it is well to explain to then that no gentleman is carried away so far by zeal for industry as to use these methods of pursuing his studies. The Harvard CRIMSON...
...been through, there is no doubt of my attitude. Their method is not the Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much...
...spectator in an emotional pincers movement and empathically lobstered him out of his seat; but in essence it was no more than a wraparound newsreel. Cinerama Holiday, in turn, is just an oversized travelogue, but a fairly lively and sometimes picturesque one. though often it is blatant enough to explain all those stories about Americans abroad...
...reluctantly prepared to watch these reversals continue all afternoon, but luckily, the two men extricated themselves and came over to explain Harvard's newest athletic organization--the Judo club, Nick Strater '53, of Leverett House, was the one with the mustache, and the inspiration for the club...