Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the Rabin government may privately welcome the Gush Emunin's dramatic demonstrations for Jewish settlements; Jerusalem can then explain to Washington that it cannot oppose the people's will. On the day after the march, the Premier toured the official settlements along the Jordan River and declared that "the establishment of settlements along this line makes it the defense line of Israel...
...kind of psychograph may explain and link these three plays. Picture an adolescent growing up in a small town, probably in the Middle West. While sheltering him, his parental home gives him no rooted sense of identity and fails to enfold him in a warm, unconditional love. Drafted into the army, he cherishes the camaraderie but loathes the authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers...
...surprised how many people come out of the woodwork," says Bartlett to explain the superabundance of caddies who show up for tournaments. After a tournament is over, Bartlett says, the caddy yard slips back into its characteristic languor, broken only by occasional run-ins between rambunctious, latter-day Hagens and the caddie master, synonymous with the long...
...These riches are an embarrassment. The subject of money puts people on the defensive at the Observatory; each feels called to account for the sums spent on his research. Motivated by this same sense of responsibility verging on guilt, the Smithsonian, HCO and the Department of Astronomy try to explain the returns the public and the University get on their investment. As part of "Smithsonian Year", the institution's annual justification to Congress, the Smithsonian publishes a scoresheet, the "Report of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory." The Public Affairs Office of the Center puts out a series of educational pamphlets: "Comets...
...EXPLAIN the horror of Chile? Chile today is an old woman picking through the garbage in downtown Santiago, looking for something to eat; Chile is 20-year-old Clara with her broad smile, who matter-of-factly told me that "about 50" of her friends were killed or disappeared in the coup; Chile is a ruined dream, a land drenched in sorrow and quivering with fear and desperation...