Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which helps to explain why the number and quality of TIME'S advertisers continue to grow. "My job isn't hard," says Meyers. "Advertising is communication, and that's what TIME is. It works...
...Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death, it is the Governors, in state convictions, or the President, in federal cases, who must make the final life-or-death judgment...
...senior at Oregon State University, has been racking up victory after victory this year with the most preposterous high-jumping technique ever devised. Approaching the bar, he plants his right foot, spins a full 180°, and launches himself backwards into the air. Experts are at a loss to explain why the "Fosbury Flop" works. "I wouldn't advise anybody else to try it," says Oregon State Coach Berny Wagner. But it sure does the trick for Dick. Last month Fosbury cleared 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. to win the N.C.A.A. championship, and last week he soared...
...least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection for "this huge, embarrassing figure" of De Gaulle by noting that the general himself is just a "vast, multiform and moving contradiction...
Sidey's attempt makes compelling reading nonetheless. Neither a chronological record nor an academic analysis, this "book of glimpses" is an intensely personal look at a baffling and often infuriating figure "whose great energies and desires even he is sometimes at a loss to explain." Sidey shows how deeply the hard times in the Texas hill country affected Lyndon Johnson, how he maintains the conviction that "the world is simply Johnson City in megatons." Sidey also describes how Johnson's struggle for wealth and power left him with an "incipient chip on the shoulder," how his laudable legislative...