Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better and better") with Coué; but somehow, most nights the debate would zigzag back to Ho's one gnawing pang: Indo-China. "I am a revolutionary," Ho would explain...
COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND, Washington bureau chief of the Republican New York Herald Tribune : THE more the Administration's explainers explain the dismissal of John Paton Davies as a "security risk" on the ground that he showed bad "judgment," principally while serving in China ten years ago, the less it satisfies many in Washington who listen to it. Mr. Davies has devoted his whole adult life to the Foreign Service. The latest security board to hear the evidence - eight previous security boards having cleared him - found Mr. Davies completely loyal, completely devoted to the United States and never imprudent with...
...Yale News, overly optimistic three, four, and five weeks ago, has now taken on a somber tone. Noted its Sports Editor Monday morning: "Maybe--and this is how we would explain it--Army took too much out of us. One thing is sure--unless the Elis turn in a much better performance this week, Harvard is going to win its first undisputed Big Three title since...
Five out of six of the men who ask to have the operation are married and explain either that they want no more children or that it would be dangerous for their wives to have more. They have heard that the operation for the man is simpler, quicker and cheaper than the corresponding one for a woman (tying off the fallopian tubes...
...Univac's mistaken idea that a Democratic sweep was in the making, Collingwood thinks it resulted from the fact that the first two states to report-Delaware and Connecticut-showed a heavier Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...