Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...champion of the British Empire, belonged in the same ring with Rocky Marciano. Day after day, before the two fighters tangled for the world championship in San Francisco last week, dutiful British sportswriters beat the drums for the Battersea Butterball. But most of the time it was easier to explain why Don might lose. For one thing, the 16½ft. square ring was too small. For another, the Britons reminded their readers, U.S. boxing is rotten with rackets. In Philadelphia, a light heavyweight named Harold Johnson claimed to have been doped before a fight by a stranger who gave...
...explain how the Santa Fe reached its present eminence, President Fred Gurley, 66, has a ready answer. Says he: "Our business is a simple business. All we do is move something from one place to another. You look around for ways to move something with a minimum amount of effort and cost. You want to approach these things like a lazy person...
...White House was at pains to explain that, with Taftman Hollister in charge, the program had a better chance of overcoming growing congressional resistance to foreign spending. The Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star glowed with pride, certain that to Hollister, "thrift is more than a word." But newsmen had trouble getting an answer to their key question: Is Hollister for or against foreign...
...deserted the Communist cause and switched their votes to give the anti-Communist C.I.S.L. a majority. After the Fiat defeat, the Communists blamed their troubles on U.S. withholding of offshore procurement orders. Last week, defeated again, they were silent. "I wonder what the propaganda boys will now invent to explain away and justify this new clamorous defeat." crowed C.I.S.L. General Secretary Giulio Pastore...
...more than 200 years, science had accepted Newton's laws of motion as unalterable. In easily parsed schoolboy terms, they seemed to explain everything, from the behavior of gases to the nature of heat. But in the 1880s, more sensitive instruments were uncovering awkward phenomena, particularly in the physics of light. These phenomena operated in open violation of Newton's laws. To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space. But experiments soon proved that ether does not exist. Scientists...