Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blast upset plans for the formal test shot, which will be witnessed by the AEC, the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, and Dr. Edward Teller, the scientist principally responsible for the thermonuclear weapon. While scientists feverishly recalculated their data and tried to explain the unexpected force of the big blast, the formal test was postponed a few days. That test, in which a thermonuclear device will be dropped from the bays of a B-36 on the shrouds of a huge parachute (to give the plane time to get out of the way), is expected to duplicate the March...
Colonel Schwable, 45, is now a thin, gaunt, nervous man. He stared from deep-set eyes as he took the stand to explain what had happened to him and how his mind had reacted during his miserable and degrading 14 months at the hands of the Reds. "Perhaps I would have been more fortunate if I had [undergone actual physical torture], because people nowadays seem to understand that better," he said. "This was a torture of a more subtle form...
...filth," the Chinese subjected him to endlessly repeated accusations and endless hints that it would be easy to kill him. Bit by bit he wrote what the Chinese wanted (as one reward they allowed him to warm his hands on a light bulb). "The hardest thing I have to explain," he said, "is how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false and yet to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real...
...Asked to explain the School's criteria for admission, Emerson said yesterday that the ultimate decision is based on the admissions board's opinion of the prospective student's character and overall suitability for medicine. The Medical School admissions aptitude test and the student's academic grades, he added, serve only as a means to eliminate questionable applicants...
...will stay around long enough to help explain the new U.S. defense program to Congress, which has come to regard him highly. In the Pentagon, too, tough Roger Kyes used his year to become a man who is respected, if not beloved...