Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official hints that he ought to pack up his whole shebang and trundle out of Hyderabad to his flossy mansion in Bombay. India's Premier Nehru himself has penned some politely worded eviction notes to the Nizam, but for reasons beyond India's tottery postal system to explain away, the Nizam never seems to get them-even though he is the only Nizam in Hyderabad. Settling down to enjoy the winter last week, His Exalted Highness murmured languidly: "Come what may, I am not leaving...
...ultimate fact. With its primped remains and imitation-grass-carpeted graves, it sets out to pull death's sting and all too often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer is more apt to be promised that in his final resting place he will receive, upon payment into a small sinking fund, "perpetual care...
...second, and main assertion, was that "adverse inference could be drawn from silence, because if a person is innocent, he can usually explain himself out of trouble...
...Indeed, at times that fact seems to surprise and embarrass University Professor Werner Jaeger himself. Last month, for example, when the Classics Department held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were. Reluctantly, the Professor reported that, along with Thomas Mann, he had been named to the German order Pour le Merite, which consists of the thirty foremost living German scholars in all fields of science and the arts. Jaeger also admitted that he had received...
...spiteful and wholly false story . . . Obviously, I would be, and was, invited by the chairman of this $100 Democratic dinner to sit at the head table; being obliged to leave by plane for Los Angeles . . . I could not accept; before leaving, I went to the head table to explain my departure to our distinguished guests; thereafter, the toastmaster, in his general introductions, referred first to me and explained my absence...