Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference will, in effect, be a forum where Latin American businessmen can explain what kind of investments they want in their countries. They will come supplied with specific recommendations and specific proposals for private-capital investment. In turn, they will learn the conditions under which U.S. businessmen will be interested in investing...
Tactics v. Strategy. In recent pronouncements on military policy, President Eisenhower had referred to the need for mobile military forces ; reporters asked him to explain in detail how these would operate. Ike refused, saying that there is no military situation that can be predicted in detail. His Administration's aim is to build up indigenous forces in friendly countries and help them in time of trouble by supplying mobile forces, e.g., airlifted Marine units...
Beneath the twin rows of cypresses that lead up to Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, an old Japanese farmer paused last week to explain his year-end pilgrimage. "The people's feelings are settling down," the farmer said. "From now on it will be best for us to be what we really are-Japanese." In Tokyo a Japanese editorial writer echoed the sentiment more formally: "The whole nation is searching for its lost pride." Last week the search was in full swing...
...replies, in order of their frequency: "1) The order and majesty of the world around us, 2) There must be a Creator to explain the origin of man and the world, 3) There is proof of God in the Bible (or other church authority), 4) Past experiences in life give me faith that there is a God, 5) Believing in God gives me much comfort." The Heart Strangely Warmed. In favoring the argument based on order in the universe, Americans chart a new swing of an old pendulum. Medieval man also saw God in the order of things...
...Bites Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when...