Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman, who used to pack the armory (capacity 5,000). Away in Monaco at another wedding was Party Treasurer Matt McCloskey, the man most immediately concerned with Democratic fundraising. These key absences, and a number of others, left Paul Butler and the Democratic comptroller, Mrs. Mary Zirkle, to explain the financial crisis...
What Paul Butler did not explain was that Democratic troubles go far beyond money matters, which are a result and not a cause of the party's crisis in leadership. Butler's own national committee staff is devoutly pro-Stevenson (although Butler went to great pains to deny it last week), but hardly anywhere else in the Democratic Party is there such recognition of a leader...
...physical activity alone is not enough to account for this high acceleration of heartbeat; emotion does the rest. ¶ The breathing rate, normally 15 to 18 a minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain the occasional rigidity of the arm and leg muscles -previously noted by Sexologist Alfred Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). ¶ The increases in heart and breathing rates up to orgasm and the gradual decline afterward are remarkably closely synchronized in the partners. ¶ Electrocardiograms show a surprisingly large number of abnormal and skipped heartbeats...
...most ambitious project was Robert Montgomery's Portrait of a Man, which struggled to compress into less than an hour the life and times of Albert Einstein. Properly despairing of trying to explain E=mc2 to his audience, Producer Montgomery tried instead to build up a lovable Mr. Chips. He failed, largely because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing...
...Cole limped offstage, the curtain rustled shut and Comedian Gary Morton edged out to explain that Cole could not continue. Cried a down-front customer: "Ask him to come back so we can apologize." Cole nervously reappeared, and got a five-minute ovation. "I just came here to entertain you," he said when the applause died. "That's what I thought you wanted." Shouted the audience: "We do, we do. Sing. Sing." But the evening was shattered. "Man, I love show business," said Cole backstage, "but I don't want to die for it." After resting...