Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only laff at the whole disaster...
...moving piece of music, then, superbly performed. However, its worth cannot be grasped immediately, and one example of its many novelties will suffice to explain why. Described in a portion of the 1948 preface which Mr. Tucker did not read is Hindemith's use of tonalities, instead of themes, as lietmotivs. Thus, the key of B represents Mary, while E symbolizes Christ. This, certainly not evident at first hearing, is just another indication that Das Marienlaben--despite its immediate impressiveness--must be heard many times before it can be fully appreciated...
...friend began to explain, "Bop is cerebral...
Last week, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, possibly the only finance chief of any major nation with such a pleasant embarrassment to explain, replied to his critics. Abbott took the view that the surplus was a fortunate miscalculation. Besides holding down inflation, he said, the surplus provided the government with funds to stockpile defense material and to pay off nearly $400 million in maturing bonds and national debt. With cash on hand for these purposes, the government did not have to borrow money during the year. And that left the investment market wide open for Canada's booming oil, mining...
Science has tried to explain away most of the cases of reported monsters on the basis of facts known about living animals, but it is still stumped by several cases, Rosenbaum said. One of these is the Gloucester Harbor sea serpent, a 60-foot long humped back, snake-headed, smooth skinned piece of horror which appeared before hundreds of people on August...