Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contumacious" Conduct. In addition to reaching down to an individual member, McCarthy's misconduct toward the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson committee extended to the Senate as a whole, the Watkins committee found. Said the report: "The conduct of Senator McCarthy has been contumacious toward the Senate by failing to explain . . . questions raised in the subcommittee's report . . . Senator McCarthy has given to the Senate, on the Senate floor, an explanation of the Lustron matter only.* It is our opinion that the failure of Senator McCarthy to explain to the Senate these matters . . . was conduct contumacious toward the Senate...
...Creer believes that the magnetic and geographical poles always stay close together, so the migrations of the magnetic pole mean that the geographical north pole moved in about the same way, followed faithfully by the earth's climatic zones. This would explain the ancient icecaps in lands where palms grow...
...midway between the two extremes, and the laws that govern them have become so familiar that any deviation seems wrong. But gravitation, one ruling common-sense force, is ignored by subatomic particles, which are attracted to one another by enormously strong forces effective only at very short distances. To explain events in the "microphysical" world, scientists need the "unnatural" rules of quantum theory...
...respectable model of the universe must explain successfully this relative abundance of the elements. One theory, the "evolving universe" (held by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher), presumes that about 5 billion years ago the universe started life with the great-great-grandfather of all explosions. The universe was then small, dense and hot, and was made up entirely of radiation and neutrons. As it exploded and expanded, most of the neutrons split into protons and electrons (hydrogen). A few joined together to form the heavier elements. It was all over in about 15 minutes; since then, the abundance of heavier...
...famine brought on by the blunders of Russian planners in the Turkmen republic and made more terrible by the party's refusal to recognize its existence. The Reds keep parroting, "No one in this country goes hungry." As bodies pile up in the streets, the bosses try to explain them away as caused by typhus and by neglecting "the elementary principles of hygiene." In the march-past of commissars, thieves, forced laborers, secret police, distraught mothers and sullen children there are few really absorbing villains, nor are there any heroes - or even very likable people. The book...