Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon became apparent that consternation was greatest among Communism's servants and those whom its coexistence line had fooled or seduced. Communist Party headquarters and newspapers around the world were left without intelligible words to explain the sudden abandonment of a line and a "monolithic unity" they had devoted two years to peddling. Socialists in Britain and West Germany were hard put to justify their thesis that Russia's mellow new leadership was ready to become friendly if only those rigid Americans would cease their demands for German rearmament...
During Austrailia's Stone Age, which Captain Cook doomed in 1770, the aborigines painted on cliffs and in caves. Today their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows...
...Kolosh, Dambala (the snake god), and Papaunga. She does not really mind her new responsibilities, though, because she feels that the Western world would not be in its present fix if there were more Papalebas around. At the same time, she regards it as her mission and duty to explain rationally parapsychological manifestations to the Haitian people...
...didn't drag him away, he would stand there for hours gazing at the displays." Thierry thinks painting as simple as his other enthusiasm, soccer. Says he: "I like colors and I like football. I paint the things as I see them. There is nothing to explain...
This contrast helps to explain why public school graduates polled considered "studies" their greatest problem and private school students checked items having to do with their "personalities...