Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committed a "grave error of judgment" in making a sharp left turn into the path of the onrushing Wasp. This turn was the "sole cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault. They advanced three theories to explain Tierney's disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought he was on the blacked-out Wasp's right...
...going around this country, I am going to try to seek out groups such as this, where I can get close to people, talk to them, try to explain to them what is in my heart and mind and try with all that is in me to learn their everyday and immediate aspirations and hopes for peace, what they feel about the horrors of war, all the questions that mean so much . . ." He concluded: "I cannot leave here without expressing to you, my brethren of the tribes, my interest in your educational opportunities, your health improvements, all of those things...
Satisfaction. Last week, in an effort to clear the air and take the heat off its frantic Intelligence Section, the Air Force answered some questions. Major General Roger M. Ramey, Director of Operations, and Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, did their best to explain away the excitement. All the reports together, said General Ramey, do not establish any pattern that can be construed as menacing. After six years of study, he is "reasonably well" convinced that there is no such thing as a "flying saucer...
Last year, "because I wanted to do something more constructive than simply make bacon and hams," Author Tasaki slipped away from his farm to a beach resort, "wrote like a machine" day & night for three months. What he brought back was The Mountains Remain, a novel that tries to explain the social jitters of postwar Japan...
...culture from the Christianity. On his return to India in 1936, he began a thorough study of Hindu culture and philosophy, found most of it not incompatible with Christian belief. A basic weakness of his own church's missionary work, he concluded, was that it sought to explain religion in terms derived from Plato and Aristotle. To Indians, with no tradition of Western philosophy behind them, this kind of teaching seemed remote or meaningless...