Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flood of questions that followed the report. Snyder and Army Doctor Thomas W. Mattingly took great pains to explain 'the unfamiliar terms. The "abnormalities" on the President's heart were actually normal aftereffects of any heart attack, like the scar tissue that covers a burn. In describing the heart attack as acute after they had always called it moderate, the doctors referred to the suddenness, not the degree, of the thrombosis. The scar itself measured about four-fifths of an inch, and was "average" for the type of attack. While the heart may have increased in size, Snyder...
...seismic social, political, economic and geographical changes that have come over Florida's face. "It's real crazy," a Florida State coed said one day last week in Tallahassee. "Things are happening. I keep asking people about it and they don't know how to explain it, but they go home for a weekend and find a new factory where there used to be an empty lot, or maybe 200 houses where there was a golf course. The whole state's jumping...
...KHRUSHCHEV is a notorious dropper of bricks. But no mere slip of his fidgety tongue can explain away his fantastic charge that the British, the French and the Americans had "started the second world war, sent troops against our country, and these troops were the troops of Hitlerite Germany...
...think it was rather plainly stated that the present moral and sanitary neglect of the Negro is not the product of a natural inferiority, but rather of historical conditions and the system here. I was merely trying to explain why, no matter how sincere a person is, there are certain factors preventing and slowing down the process of integration...
Drawn from his experiences as a Northerner living in the South, Mr. Halberstam's remarks explain the white man's attitude toward the Negro, the "Other Side" seldom understood amid the "quivering emotion" and "finger-shaking" of the Yankee liberal. He states that he is "convinced of the basic evils of white supremacy" and "the equality of all races." He proceeds, however, to spin a web of selective evidence to show how the Southern white is justified in his own eyes (and in the eyes of "intelligent" people generally) in keeping the Negro down, for the time being at least...