Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government had asked McCarthy to describe the various steps of establishing the subcommittee and its rules and to explain the purpose of the subversion inquiry...
Stevenson insisted that his meeting with Johnson and Rayburn was "a social and friendly visit" and was "not political in any sense." Against the persistent attempts of newsmen to get him to explain his political intentions, Stevenson finally went this far: "My intentions are no mystery. I'm just trying to ascertain what the wishes of the Democratic leaders around the country are. Once I'm satisfied I know that, I will have something to say. In the meantime, I just haven't crossed that bridge...
Nimbly crossing a stream on a log worn smooth by countless bare feet, a mass of moving color in their freshly laundered sarongs, they gathered before the thatched home of the village lurah (leader) to hear an election official explain the proceedings. At least half of them were women, often with naked, suckling babies. "Vote freely," said the official. "Whoever buys or sells votes will be prosecuted ... Do you understand?" The crowd murmured...
This helps explain the remarkable fact that a man who boasted that he did not know "any more about theology than a jack rabbit knows about pingpong" should have drawn the greatest congregations in history. In the days before radio had disembodied the audience, 100 million Americans came "in person" to hear Billy Sunday. He "saved" a million of them, at the cost, he said, of $2 a soul...
...give Ehrenburg trouble all over again: the book's U.S. publisher is Chicago's Henry Regnery, a man of marked anti-Soviet opinions-exactly the sort Ehrenburg means when he talks about imperialist hyenas. What is more, Regnery commissioned Fellow Hyena Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind) to explain in an accompanying essay why he has published the dreadful bit of work. Reason: this book shows perfectly that life itself "in the Revolutionary Utopia ... has faded away to this boredom with the present and this indifference to the future...