Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time the pollsters were rich in experience. They had pondered & pondered their failure to find enough Democrats in 1948; they were not making that mistake again. So when their figures repeatedly showed Dwight Eisenhower running in front, the more experienced pollsters went into learned loops to explain why such figures were not to be trusted. Almost all of them stressed the "undecided" vote. George Gallup's final poll showed...
Play It on the Piano. By war's end the Anzacs had suffered 68½% battle casualties, and this gave Billy a voice in the Versailles Peace Conference. On the boundaries commission, Billy listened to Ignace Jan Paderewski, Pianist-Premier of Poland, explain a problem which has confused a generation of diplomats: Poland's eastern border. Said Billy, after studying the mass of demographic symbols that Paderewski had chalked on the blackboard: "Listen, Mr. President, the best thing you can do is take that home and play it on your piano...
...Time to Explain. The tin decree, climaxing long years of bloody struggle, was the most important act of nationalization in Latin America since Mexico expropriated its foreign oil companies in 1938. The three nationalized companies-Patińo,* Hochschild, Aramayo-produce 72% of the country's tin. Though Bolivia now mines only 15% of the world's tin, it still accounts for virtually all that is produced in the Western Hemisphere. And tin is still backward Bolivia's one cash crop, providing 80% of the country's foreign exchange. Last week's decree...
...just been forbidden by the South African government. Ingredients for this muti are usually obtained by ritual murders, of which there have been a dozen in Basutoland alone this year. The witch doctors in convention assembled asked the government to lift the advertising ban on muti. They forgot to explain why it is all right for them to use human organs, but wrong for the "quacks" (nonmembers of the Dingaka Association) to do so. They also forgot to tell where they get the human parts for their own prescriptions...
What was at the bottom of his Anglo-American tussle? Aiken is clearest and most direct when he tries to explain. He was drawn to England by the particular genius it represented, of which "the facets and fragments . . . sparkled everywhere, on every level." Its common base was "love of life . . . vivid intelligence and gusto"; its expressions ranged from sublime poetry to low ribaldry. Aiken heard it in the dialogue between two dear old English ladies watching lambs at play...