Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration has a tendency to explain its troubles as inherited from Truman. Last week at a Washington party, Republican Chairman Leonard Hall told a story, kidding his party's line. A drunk, said Hall, was pulled out of a flaming bed in a hotel room and charged with arson. Next day he had a ready explanation for the judge. "Why, your honor,'' he said, "I couldn't have done it. That bed was on fire when I got into...
...week: "The failure of Iran and the United Kingdom to reach an agreement with regard to compensation has handicapped the Government of the United States in its efforts to help Iran ... I am not trying to advise the Iranian government on its best interests. I am merely trying to explain why, in the circumstances, the Government of the United States is not presently in a position to extend more aid to Iran or to purchase Iranian oil ... [I] hope that before it is too late the government of Iran will take such steps as are in its power to prevent...
Joyce finds it hard to explain where her style came from. She never sang until five years ago, and she came from a San Francisco family of strict Seventh-Day Adventists. On her way to the Adventists' Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., she stopped off for a look at Los Angeles, visited a small nightclub, and landed a singing job after getting into an audience-participation act. She was the demure type in those days, with long hair and bouffant dresses-"real silly." She played such big rooms as Giro's in Hollywood and New Jersey...
...remainder of Benefit of Clergy, the best of the five short stories in this collection. But Penelope's astonishment at finding her husband a clergyman is as nothing compared to the reader's at finding Philosopher Bertrand Russell a short-story writer. Even Russell himself cannot explain why, in his 80s, he has suddenly turned fictioneer: "For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories in this volume, although I had never before thought of doing such a thing...
...which helps to explain why the second half of Call Me Lucky is chiefly concerned with the golf Bing has played, the deer he has hunted, the trouble he has matching slacks and sport coats because he is colorblind, and the curious immunity he experiences, when facing an audience, to what the trade calls "flop sweat...