Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the game, completed nine of ten passes, and the Browns finally won, 23-21. Next night, Graham was back on his TV show, bandaged face and all. Characteristically, he begged newsmen: "Don't represent me as a corny exhibitionist with a show-must-go-on attitude. Just explain that my mouth hardly hurts...
...this nationally televised and broadcast program, Ramsey, a well-known unclear physicist, will explain the University's actions in not suspending Associate Professor Wendell H, Furry. Ramsey made it clear last night, however, that he is not speaking for the University, only for himself...
...newspaper reader will listen, the undergraduate might explain to him that the atmosphere of freedom which spawned the former was vital to the accomplishments of the latter...
...that the ADA should be the whipping boy of Republican orators is inevitable. The extreme wing of a party always catches the abuse of the opposition. Thomas E. Dewey of New York had to explain away the support of Gerald L. K. Smith every election for ten years. Stevenson campaigned against the mid-western, not the eastern Republicans, as did Churchill against Bevan, William Jennings Bryan against Wall Street, and Jackson against Nicholas Biddle...
...France would get far enough out on a limb to credit any of Gauguin's Tahitian grandchildren with having inherited their grandfather's genius.* But France-Soir, yielding to a temptation to sentimentalize, proclaimed that the children's efforts "revealed striking gifts that only heredity could explain...