Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painful as the after-effects of hip surgery in Boston. Said Godfrey last week: "I sit here worrying myself sick about it ... I know whatever Erwin does must be O.K. But I'd like to know why this?" Three days later, Wilson flew up to Boston to explain. Reported Godfrey, after the explanation: "He said none of it would jeopardize the Strategic Air Command...
...came to sweet-talk him on his terrace, proud, headstrong Syngman Rhee held firm. "You came here to save us," he told one caller. "Are we saved if, after three years of war, you sign away the principles you have said you were fighting for?" The Americans tried to explain that the U.N. was fighting in Korea to stop aggression, that aggression had been stopped, that unification would have to wait for the peace conference. Unification, they said, is only a political objective, not a military one. Rhee dismissed that argument as a technicality. How can you expect...
Twelve times since the story of the Truman Administration tax scandals began to unfold, big, molasses-voiced Theron Lamar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle had been hauled before congressional committees to explain why he called off prosecution in various tax cases while he was Truman's Assistant Attorney General in charge of the tax division. Twelve times, he had plaintively explained to investigators that he acted only out of 1) simple humanity, or 2) a country boy's bewilderment at the big city, or 3) deference to orders from above. Last week Caudle was back before a House subcommittee...
Another reason why the people stand for Perón is that there is no hunger in Argentina. One of Perón's driving emotions-and this helps to explain his virulent anti-Americanism-is his envy of the industrial U.S. and a desire to imitate it. To finance the industrialization scheme, he bought his farmers' wheat and meat at controlled prices, sold them on the world market for whatever the traffic would bear. Too much of the money ended up in grafters' pockets, uneconomical industries or pipe dreams such as the projects to build atomic...
...country's public service on the fact that Americans can hold no titles of nobility. "An English civil servant will slave for forty years," he said, "just so he may someday be tapped on the head by his Sovereign." This ingrained avoidance of the trappings of royalty may also explain why Americans whose memories do not reach back to 1936 are somewhat bewildered at the British Commonwealth's preoccupation with the Coronation. The island that has lived so long on austerity, boiled, seems ready to burst. People in countries whose affiliations with Britain are, at best lackadaisical have decorated their...