Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water rights? No." When Yarborough finished, the crowd cheered. Allan Shivers rose to explain: "It was a legitimate business deal; I have never found anything wrong with this great American system of profitmaking." As he sat down, the only applause came from Shivers' friends on the platform...
...trip is made in the daytime only, over a road patrolled by French troops. Just before we left, the government press officer handed me a German-made submachine gun wrapped in brown paper. To the driver who was taking me to Le Kef, I thought it only fair to explain that German arms were a little out of my line."It's all right, monsieur," he said. "I drive so fast that by the time the fellagha get ready to shoot, we are far past them." He seldom drove under 70 m.p.h...
...often as little as $10 a month. Yet, on the many occasions when Natsukawa's company has been haled into court, the girls have steadfastly refused to testify against him. Boss Natsukawa, a Buddhist who drives a Cadillac and gives the fanciest geisha parties in Tokyo, used to explain it all by the company policy he calls "K.S.E." (Kindness, Special Quality, Efficiency). "After all," he boasted, spreading his fat hands wide, "Ohmi has never had a strike...
...Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth, Wilbur Evans; Capitol LP). Mostly ordinary show tunes by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
...persuaded to watch a film of a V-2's flight. He was wildly enthusiastic but demanded that the one-ton warhead be increased to ten tons. When told that this was technically impossible, he cried: "But what I want is annihilation -annihilating effect!" Dornberger had to explain that the V-2s, in effect, were long range artillery. Even if they worked perfectly, they could not annihilate England...