Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Harold Macmillan added: "The tensions between East and West have seemed unending. But recently there has been a lifting of the cloud . . ." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was carried away: "Let us make no attempt to explain or even to understand all the whys and wherefores; let us merely note, but note with joy, that throughout the world there is at least a desire to talk...
...continued. "But there is no way of telling when this might come to pass, so I open the doors. A scientist is no longer able to say honestly something is impossible. He can only say it is improbable. But he may be able to say something is impossible to explain in terms of our present knowledge. Science cannot say that all properties of matter and all forms of energy are now known...
Changing Point. "The Christian," said Dr. Brobeck, "thinks of miracles as something improbable, and so does the scientist. Both Christian and scientist also agree that it is impossible to explain miracles in terms of our present understanding. This doesn't mean miracles are impossible, and the Christian accepts them by faith . . . The attitude to science of the scientist who is not a Christian is rapidly approaching that of the scientist who is a Christian...
...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...
Picasso soon turned his gift for direct attack from subject matter to art itself; at least half his creations have been reworkings not of nature but of art in general. "I imitate everything but myself," he would explain. The savage speed of his experiments often led him in circles; sometimes he sacrificed progress to change. History may view him as a childish titan who almost absentmindedly laid vast granite foundations for a thousand castles...