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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Central to the play, of course, is the character of Swift himself. In a series of flashbacks, his friends in turn recall his malevolence from seven points of view the seven deadly sins. In each kaleidoscopic event, they are searching for the one clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: The Dreaming Dust | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

When he called for a naval blockade of Red China and voted against censuring Joe McCarthy, the nation wondered more than ever about Senate Majority Leader William Fife Knowland. He is not an easy man to pigeonhole or explain. Some facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SENATOR KNOWLAND: SENATOR KNOWLAND | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Three months ago, with the help of a local British fisherman, a Polish fishing vessel, apparently in trouble, was guided into the port of Whitby. In incomprehensible Polish and ragged German, seven members of the Polish crew managed to explain that they had locked their captain in the lavatory, the political officer in his cabin, and had headed for Britain to seek asylum from Red rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mutiny of the Puszczyk | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...gone. Medical students no longer need to peer over each other's shoulders, straining for a view of a master-surgeon's deft-fingered skill. A TV camera relays a color image to viewing rooms throughout the hospital. A two-way phone system enables the surgeon to explain what he is doing, while graduate students can ask him to clear up details. And in the operating rooms doctors and nurses wear soft green-easier on the eyes and on the TV lens than white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pink Palace of Healing | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Probably the best reason which could explain the Crimson late-period faltering is the three-lien depth of the B.C. squad, since coach Cooney Weiland, with few exceptions, only alternated his first two forward lines during the game...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Crimson Sextet Overtaken in Last Period, Dropping Hard-Fought Contest to BC, 4-3 | 12/11/1954 | See Source »

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