Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, who was in charge of Pueblo's highly classified research spaces, was called on to explain his failure to destroy mounds of classified documents that ultimately fell into North Korean hands. Harris testified that he did not have enough weighted bags to sink the documents. When one man was wounded by machine-gun fire as he tried to toss one of the bags overboard, Harris decided to keep the men inside to try to burn the documents, The lack of time, the confusion, and the smoke from smoldering documents on the deck made his mission...
Bowles said that the purpose of the survey was to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities, a topic which will be discussed later in the term...
...types of questions which the press should have been attempting to answer if those who rely on it are to make accurate judgments of what is happening politically in the nation. For too long the national press dealt with Wallace only in order to denigrate him--not seeking to explain why he attracted the type of support that he did. For many weeks following McCarthy's Granite State victory, many columnists continued to say that the vote was based on Johnson's personality rather than on the war. Greater emphasis on non-personality-oriented reportage might have cleared up issues...
...they have obeyed Claudius' order to come to the castle; they do not have a clue to Hamlet's madness; and when, on a ship to England, they discover that their missive no longer calls for Hamlet's execution, but for their own, they do not know how to explain death...
...fanciful. He has an odd ear for uneven sounds. Describing a man's chuckle, for example, he writes: "It sounded as if someone down inside his throat was crumpling a paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain at once fearful and frolicsome-as if Bruegel's earthy dancing peasantry had been...