Word: explains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some time to know. At West Point, where he was a '15 classmate of Eisenhower's, he is remembered as the crack centerfielder who made the longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling...
...rubbing table before every game. He had no injuries and few complaints in 1942 and his batting average that year skidded to a feeble .262. Next year his aches & pains, real and imaginary, were up to standard and his average soared to .328. Trying to explain his hypochondria, Luke says: "You get a little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first, and first thing you know it's really bad. I just don't take any chances. We got a lot of good trainers around here and I like...
...record the complete FBI reports which Spy Judith Coplon had hastily abstracted for her Soviet friends. The FBI had wanted to withdraw from the trial rather than let its reports be admitted into evidence. For one thing, innocent people were involved. To be sure, the FBI could (and did) explain that the reports-attributed to confidential informants identified only as ND-402, ND-305 and T-7-were unprocessed, unevaluated raw material. They were also, undeniably, a bewildering clutch of gossip, hearsay and trivia...
...them off. Last week, 250 of the workers stormed into his office and demanded reinstatement as full-time employees. After 15 hours of negotiation, the executive got off by paying the men an additional 35 days' wages each. "Actually," he said, "I was lucky, but how do I explain that to the boys back at the home office...
Prague's Joseph Hromadka tried to explain that the situation in Eastern Europe is "both wider and deeper than the question of religious liberty." These countries, said, are going through a total social, economic, and political transformation, and the churches "could not serve as a shelter for those who wish to retreat to the old social order." In short, "the judgment of God lies upon the churches for having failed to meet the needs of the broad masses of people throughout the world...