Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss & Rule. Leader after leader rose to explain what one protesting resolution called "the government's apparent inability to reverse trends resulting from Socialist maladministration" and to "use its strong majority to implement more forcibly its election promises." Minister of Housing and Local Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came...
Some physicians are so disturbed that they go out of their way to explain TV's excesses to patients. "Advertisers warned one A.M.A. spokesman, should not forget that the public is not so lastingly gullible as they seem to believe...
Nobody can explain Mantovani's sudden ascent from a better-than-average bandleader of average popularity, except that in 1951 he added a couple of dozen strings to sweeten up his orchestra, and recorded a schmalzy old waltz called Charmaine. It was a period when makers of LP records were discovering the possibilities of mood music. Mantovani's "new music" was apparently just what thousands of people wanted to hear when they were not really listening. It still is. Today, London Records claims, sales have topped...
...Power and the Prize (M-G-M), like Executive Suite and Patterns, starts out as if it were really going to explain the difference between the American Way of Life and the Normal Course of Business...
...tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built to connect the Somoza properties, but it remains a poor (yearly per capita income: $245), dusty, undeveloped country...