Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Free of Questions. The report was only one phase of the mayor's counterattack. He angrily challenged the three major television networks to grant him an hour's prime time to explain himself and his police. "Certainly," said Daley, "the grave implication of these events to the cities of America, which was not portrayed during the convention coverage, should be presented to the American public...
Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to any other recorded speech. Medical researchers are still at a loss to explain why proportionately more Basques carry the Rh-negative blood factor than any other people. But since the days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century...
...riot's viciousness, the inmates offered no grievances to explain their outbreak beyond the normal gripes of prison life. In that, they were less articulate than the prisoners of the Marine brig at Danang, who rioted briefly three weeks ago. They had complained of cold food, excessive discipline, and long delays before trial. When the brig commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Gambardella, promised to look into their complaints, they calmed down and cleared up their cell block; and except for a brief flare-up when 40 parolees and trusties were moved out, that was the end of it. The prisoners...
Epstein feels that if this "head start" approach to the teaching of science spreads, more research-oriented professors will willingly teach undergraduates. For most of them, the chance to explain their life's work is no chore...
...daily conversation, Ionesco successfully captures an illusive sense of life's strangeness. It is when he tries to examine his own estrangement that he becomes a confused prisoner of himself. He calls this book a search for himself, yet adds with equal earnestness that "the more I explain myself, the less I understand myself." The closest he comes to that understanding is when he describes himself as "someone who hopes to win first prize in a lottery without having bought a ticket...