Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent Welles* found the archbishop in a sunken garden near Deering Library, waiting with other council officials to receive President Eisenhower. Leaning over the garden wall, Welles hailed Bishop Oxnam, whom he had met several years before, and said that he wanted to explain to the archbishop that TIME was planning to do a cover story on him. The archbishop came to the wall and invited Welles into the garden. Replied Welles: "The Secret Service won't let me come down there, but if Your Grace will play Romeo to my Juliet, perhaps we can discuss an interview date...
...failing to hustle on the slim chance that his mount might draw low weight in later handicaps, were part of honest horse racing long before Crevolin. But to horsemen it seemed like a breach of faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin's horses are now running, stewards called Crevolin on the carpet, sent...
...Traub, to the stand to find out who got it. Had any of the cash gone to Clyde L. Powell, former assistant FHA commissioner who resigned last April and has dodged behind the Fifth Amendment to escape testifying? Traub said that none of it had, but he could not explain who had got the money. The committee ordered him to bring in his books, but at week's end both Traub and the books were missing...
...crime reporters usually have cliches to explain everything-or almost everything...
...authorities prepared first-degree murder charges, the four youths were arraigned in court. The leader, Jack Koslow, 18, screamed "Mama! Mama!" But that didn't explain it. either...