Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seems Sure. Senator after Senator rose to explain at length either that dislike of German rearmament was leading him to vote against or that dislike of German rearmament would not prevent him from voting for. Only the 16 Communists and some of the 48 Gaullists among the 320 members were implacably hostile, but as the oratory droned on, there arose real danger that the hesitant and reluctant would insist on delaying amendments...
...explain the thousands of books that come out every year?" asks a character in Mother & Son. The reply: "I do not explain them. There seems to me to be no explanation." The same answer might apply to questions about the works of veteran Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett. What explanation is there for an author who has produced, at almost regular two-year intervals, a string of novels that have all much the same title (e.g., Pastors & Masters; Elders & Betters; Brothers & Sisters'), are about much the same people living in much the same house at much the same period (turn...
Stalin says slyly that without such concessions "it would be difficult ... to explain to the Soviet people why Russia was entering the war against Japan ... a country with which they had no great trouble...
...game, the Rocket went to a Montreal hospital to be patched up. Then he appeared at National Hockey League headquarters to explain his conduct to President Clarence Campbell. This time, Campbell decided, a fine was not punishment enough for the man who holds the record for fines paid in the N.H.L. He suspended the Rocket for the rest of the season, forbade him to play in the Stanley Cup Games as well...
Long-Range Aim. Dulles' critics like to scoff at talk of retaliation and explain that bombs are no good against infiltration and subversion. In his speech Dulles acknowledged that subversion was perhaps the greatest problem of Southeast Asia today. Then, to show the relationship between military power and political progress, he cited the example of the little Indo-China kingdom of Laos, plagued by Communist-supported "disloyal elements." The government of Laos is "worried, lest, if it suppresses the Communists within, it will be struck by the Communists from without." But, he explained, if the U.S., through SEATO, promises...