Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forger will not devote the rest of his career to making license plates. So impressed are Illinois investigators with Thompson's exploits that they have offered him a guest lectureship. If the offer is approved, he will be escorted out of the pokey for brief periods to explain to state police just...
...Pataphysics," wrote its founder, Poet Alfred Jarry, in 1898, is "the science of the realm beyond metaphysics." It will study the laws that govern exceptions and "explain the universe supplementary to this...
...when the next batter, Tom Songin, followed with a single, it was time for Clifford to exit in favor of Mark Linehan. "I just didn't have it in that last inning," Clifford said last night. "You can't really explain it, because I wasn't really tired, and I had had a few good innings, but Mark pitched really well...
...this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was on a Midwestern show panel when the host finally turned to him and, asking about the war in Viet Nam, said: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell...
Would you please explain the reasoning that led you to this judgment...