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Word: explaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat, Gorski added, "did not meet our criteria" for evacuating the building, although he declined to explain what those criteria...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Science Center: The 'Bomb' Fizzles | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

Editor Gerard Sherry of San Francisco's Catholic Monitor said, "I think he was trying to explain Christian ideas on promiscuity. If anything, he showed himself much less arrogant than Ford. Ford said [in a Ladies' Home Journal interview] his daughter would never have an affair. That was pretty dumb. Carter was being truthful with all due humility." The reaction that most intrigued California Pollster Mervin Field was expressed by his 16-year-old daughter Melanie as she watched television news accounts with her father. When the Carter-Playboy story was concluded, Melanie asked: "Dad, is Jimmy Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...more people working today-88 million of them -than ever before. Weidenbaum, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, also points out that the number of new jobs has not kept up with the number of women and teen-agers entering the labor force, and this helps to explain the rise in joblessness. Most of TIME'S economists believe that unemployment will stay above 7% until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK: A Pause That May Not Refresh | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda to Clarence Darrow. The idea of having a character who is seemingly Coretta King (Judyann Elder), deliver lengthy asides on the ideals of King violates another internal law of drama: never explain - always reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A King in Darkness | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...other day a harried House superintendent, beseiged by student requests for furniture usually provided for all rooms by the University vainly sought to explain the current shortage. "The House is missing a lot of chairs and desks and other furniture in rooms. I'm not sure why we don't have enough. Must just be more people in the House...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Crowding As a Shared Experience | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

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