Word: explaining
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Another GOP candidate who has not separated himself from the pack is former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who has regularly visited N.H., but is spending most of his campaign time trying to explain his past...
Agents of Innocence contains all the detailed local color and technical arcana that the thriller genre demands. Ignatius can convey the terror even an experienced spy feels when approaching isolated border crossings and potentially murderous guards. He can explain how to construct a remote-control detonator and how to gauge the damage of a terrorist blast by sight alone: "White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep...
...graduate students and one undergraduate committed suicide this month in three separate incidents, leaving no clues to explain their actions...
...refers to Lewis Hyde's "The Gift, Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" to explain his attitudes towards art. In that book, Hyde argues that "a work of art is a gift, not a commodity." Tom concurs that to be art, a work must have a value which is to some extent personal, and is prior to the monetary worth assigned...
CAMBRIDGE City elections are approaching--so just how low the turnout will be is a focus of speculation. Once the elections are over and the figures are in, political shamans will call on a wild variety of factors to explain the public's lack of interest. The limited significance of the races, the lack of substantial issues involved, the low "sex appeal" of the candidates, and, inevitably, the weather will all be blamed...