Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myth No. I. Jimmy Hoffa, the committee charges, has shown a keen interest in making money for Jimmy Hoffa. Tracing the web of Hoffa's financial dealings proved to be difficult, because he deals entirely in cash, leaving no personal-check stubs or canceled checks behind. Asked to explain this peculiarity, Hoffa bristles and replies that as a U.S. citizen he has a "right" to deal in cash if he wants...
...Hoffa's 1948-56 income tax returns, the committee found $60.322 reported under such vague headings as "miscellaneous income" and "wagering." He explained that his friend Bert Brennan placed racetrack bets for him and always showed a yearly profit. Invited by the committee to explain his system, Brennan took the Fifth Amendment...
Rocky came, and for 20 minutes talked about civil defense. Then he came to the point: he faced "problems" in connection with the New Hampshire primary," and wished Bridges would explain the state's complex primary law. Bridges dryly remarked that Rockefeller must have plenty of able lawyers, but he obliged anyway. Then Bridges laid his own ideas on the line. "I don't want to leave you with any misapprehension of my position," he said. "Everyone knows that I'm friendly with Dick Nixon and that it is my present intention to support...
...battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem -"Poland is not yet lost"-could serve as the theme of this book. The Frozen Revolution undertakes to explain how it happened that Poland is still there and that its cause-vital to the West-is not yet lost...
...historian of the plains, Webb follows in the tradition of the great Frederick Jackson Turner, who first formulated the frontier theory of U.S. history in 1893: "The existence of an area of free land and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." To write his history of the Texas Rangers, says Webb, "Like Parkman I went to all the places where things had happened," and finally "I stumbled on one of the few original ideas I ever had." The idea: "What I saw was that when Stephen F. Austin brought his colonists to Texas, he brought them...