Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intourist guide. Although he speaks German, Hungarian, and some Italian and Spanish, Rademaekers has no facility in French. He asked the guide if she spoke English or any of the other languages. "No," she informed him coldly. "You are French." The correspondent produced his passport and tried to explain why the visa came from Paris, not New York. But since the guide could speak no English and he no French, the conversation ended with a surly driver delivering the "Frantsuzsky tourist" downtown to the relatively new Dnipro Hotel, where he was assigned a small, inelegant room on the second floor...
Reagan's target was Drew Pearson; his strategy, counterattack. "He's lying," said the Governor of California. "Pearson shouldn't be using a typewriter. He's better with a pencil on outbuilding walls." How to explain Pearson's attack...
TIRED OF WAR? VOTE NUNN. The campaign posters do not explain how Republican Louie Nunn will settle the Viet Nam conflict from Frankfort if he is elected Kentucky's Governor next week. For that matter, neither candidate has been notably informative about the issues. Nunn seems to be running against Lyndon Johnson, retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, and assorted other Democrats. However, Henry Ward, the Democratic candidate, happens to agree with Nunn on most questions affecting the state. The race is so lacking in substance that Ward, conceding that he has "no grand sort of scheme," tells voters: "Whether...
High Threshold. The Russians also came to the rescue of U.S. scientists, who had been at a loss to explain preliminary Venus 4 reports that there was no nitrogen in the Venusian atmosphere (nitrogen accounts for 78% of terrestrial air). Backing off slightly, the Soviet scientists explained that the nitrogen-gas analyzer aboard the capsule had a "signal-detection threshold" of 7%; thus it would have been unable to detect smaller percentages...
QUESTION: Dean Glimp, could you explain what admonished means...