Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Mayman, who is also master of Cabot House,held an open meeting last week to explain theplan, many Quad residents complained that theorange stripes would hinder football games on thelawn...
Marius is also critical of students who do not explain or develop their arguments, relying on block quotations rather than inferring from the texts and thinking for themselves...
This summer Taylor met with all staffsupervisors to explain the legal restrictions ontheir relation to the organizing effort and thehistory of HUCTW's unionizing drives...
...planners believe the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative system, if deployed, would pose a far more dramatic threat to Soviet satellites. Armed with kinetic rockets and, ultimately, particle beams, SDI would pose a greater danger to satellites than to its ostensible targets, incoming Soviet strategic missiles. Indeed, that may largely explain current Soviet worries about...
...each character looks back at Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing...