Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Negro has the opportunity if he can--and wants to--take it," the article remarked, to explain why only 35 black students enrolled in the College that year...
...what he was doing at graduation and he turned out fine." Or, "My cousin didn't have a job by the time of Commencement. Now he's married and works at Goldman!" Still others don't seem to have heard of the disease. Frequently it takes several tries to explain my condition. "So you're taking time off," they insist repeatedly. "Not exactly," I say, "since it's not really time off from anything." "Oh," they respond, with a blank, lost stare...
Other labs had trouble duplicating his results. And he must continually but cautiously explain his work to the press and the public, making it clear that there are no miracles up his sleeve...
...want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at Crimson editorial meetings, you want me at that podium, you need me at that podium," she wrote. "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a staff that rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very services I provide, and then questions the fact that I provide them...
...immediately wrote to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59 by e-mail, asking him to explain what I was supposed to have understood by the designation of Professor Friend's letter to me as "Personal and Confidential." Fox's reply is instructive: "I marked the e-mail and letter confidential and/or personal in order to protect you from someone else inadvertently opening or reading something which was addressed...