Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it came Denise's turn to hear the charges against her, she burst into tears and tried to explain. "I was too unhappy," she sobbed. "I had no money. I became Berger's mistress because he terrorized me. He was a madman. I wanted to escape but he came to find me and dragged me by the hair...
...Hoffner's conviction rested on the testimony of a waiter. He was the only one who had identified Hoffner as the killer. Mowery discovered that the first time the waiter tried to pick Hoffner out of the lineup, he failed. Pressed by defense lawyers to explain why he missed Hoffner the first time, the witness said he had not seen him in profile, as he had viewed the killer. But Mowery checked into the line-up record, proved that the witness had seen Hoffner's profile, and even so had not identified him at first...
Clasby grinned in embarrassment. "I really don't know. It's just one of those things you can't explain. I've been chewed out for that plenty." The only way to understand what had made him do it, he suggested, would be to run 96 yards in the Stadium. I said thanks, but I didn't feel...
Teele said the University employees receive "a more favorable break than in most places." He said his office had notified everyone of the change in pensions, and had not with members of the HUERA to explain the change...
Some of Ike's legions of first voters were young men whose adult memories began not in Depression, but during World War II. Said a young C.I.O. worker, as he tried to explain the election to C.I.O.-P.A.C. Boss Dan Bodell in St. Joseph County, Indiana: "You stood in bread lines but we stood in chow lines...