Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...
Analyst Jones never manages to explain fully Freud's peculiar hostility toward the U.S. He lists trivia, such as 53-year-old Freud's oversensitiveness (surely immature) when a guide in Niagara's Cave of the Winds called: "Let the old fellow go first." And he notes that Freud unfairly blamed rich U.S. food for intestinal trouble that actually antedated his visit by several years, and was probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels...
Still Running. Even the stretch-run jitters could not explain the Yankee errors. Even the voluble Casey was speechless with rage. This was worse than Baltimore, where, five days before, the Yanks had blown another and wound up blaming it on the umpires (see cut). It was hard to believe New York was still in the league. But the Yankees knew better. Next day, they gave Cleveland a rough afternoon, split a double header, stayed ii games back and managed to remind Manager Al Lopez pace-setting Indians that they were still running hard in the pennant race...
...employee benefit program, new orders for the company. Union officials recognize the failure of many companies to use their publications effectively. Said an Omaha A.F.L. leader: "There are so many ways the company could put their point across. If they'd come out in their house organ and explain why they're going to do this or that, who's going to be affected by a layoff, and how long it would last, then the employees would be able to make their plans. More often than not, they'd be willing to cooperate...
...TIME was right: the auto buyer owes more than the $2,400 car is worth for 9½ months, but it neglected to explain that he pays $504 in finance and insurance charges, thus faces an unpaid balance of $2,304 after a 25% down payment...