Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a court dispute over the custody of their children, John Clark, 51, made his old predicament public. Called into Tulsa district court to explain, state relief authorities admitted keeping up the payments for four years over Clark's objections. Their excuse: the Clarks were quarreling at the time and the situation was "extremely confused." Esther Clark in her turn admitted having purchased the horse out of her relief checks. But, she hastened to add, the riding boots were secondhand...
...neutrality is the great Swedish superstition. Sweden has not been in a war since 1814, has spent most of her efforts since then on staying out. Her decision to stay out of the North Atlantic alliance is almost universally accepted. Practically everyone you meet, however, feels it necessary to explain Sweden's position. They all give the same argument, as if the whole country had been briefed...
...spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling, and now-in so far as Britain's participation was concerned-seemed to be doing his best to stop...
...simplicity that I used to have . . . Once upon a time I was not reconciled to the world because there were many things about it I did not like. Today, I am still not reconciled to it but for another reason-that I find things are not so simple to explain as I once imagined...
Besides stimulating the wet nurses' production, the music had another purpose, says De Angelis. As a result of their early conditioning, the foundlings soon developed musical aptitudes which won them places in papal choirs. One thing De Angelis cannot explain: why or when the hospital abandoned a practice which put it centuries ahead of the medical profession in the use of musical therapy...