Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry Parker strongly denies that the boat suffered for it. "Mentally they were ready to race just as hard and just as fast as they had ever done. I don't think you have to explain being beaten by crews of that caliber...
...remains unshaken. They argue, in fact, that the deaths are simply God's way of answering detractors who accuse the sects of using defanged serpents. As for the late Oscar Pelfrey, says Mullins, "he died 100% in his faith." Why, then, was he bitten? "I can't explain it. That is between him and God. It was God's will...
...explain why he expects the Administration's policies to cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
During September's auto-pricing controversy, he not only went to Washington but broke tradition by holding a press conference, with tour of his six top officers, to explain why the company had raised its '69 prices. This month he departed from tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
...business and that it must generally go along with governments, U.S. or foreign as the case may be, on social questions. This leads to an immediate impasse. It is as if you are playing chess and your opponent moves his king so as to place himself in check. You explain to him that the move is not permissible, but he responds, "Your move...