Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with deep sincerity: by the grace of God. "If God should take His hands off my life," says Billy, "my lips would turn to clay. I'm no great intellectual, and there are thousands of men who are better preachers than I am. You can't explain me if you leave out the supernatural. I am but a tool...
...Hear Billy Graham," plus a picture. Says Jerry Beavan ("pronounced like heaven"), Graham's 31-year-old public-relations man: "When you see an advertisement for a Cadillac, it just says Cadillac and shows you a picture. Billy is like a Cadillac. We don't have to explain...
...dining halls made $10,000 last year; Houses and College dormitories netted $48,000; and Buildings and Grounds cleard $152,000. Officials, however, were quick to explain these gains away...
Fortunately for the duck hunter's friends, they seldom have to listen for long to the fat glories of "the one that got away." Most of the time, a beaten, bone-weary gunman will simply explain: "That big mallard I missed had most likely been stuffing himself with fish. He would have tasted terrible anyway...
Steinberg needs no captions to explain such mincing mimicries or to underline his jibes at the world. If he did use words, the effect might become altogether too brutal. Commenting on one of his Christmas cards, which shows Santa's sleigh drawn by a tiny bird, Steinberg once sighed that "the bird every so often gets a tremendous hit with that whip." And a gentle smile perked for just an instant his sad mustache...