Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week Caudle will have an opportunity to explain in full before an open hearing of the King subcommittee. The subcommittee, said Representative King, will be ready with a "play-by-play" of Caudle's activities and inactivities...
...bulging, bloodshot eyes, and denied any wrongdoing. "I have steered down the middle of the road," he said. "I go to bed tonight with a clean, clear conscience, as I have every night since I have worked in this job ... I wish I had had the opportunity to explain to the President, whom I adored so much, the problems of my office. But I had no such opportunity, and I had no control over my destiny at all. My heart is broken...
...Federal Bureau of Narcotics officially reported that he is a dope addict. Henslee is an important wheel in McKellar's organization and since McKellar is up for reelection next year, the Senator was grieved over Henslee's suspension. Dunlap went to McKellar's office to explain his action. The crusty old spoilsman swept aside the Narcotics Bureau report, quavering, "Papers, just papers." Then he bellowed at Dunlap, "You're not fit to hold public office," and for half an hour berated him with a steady stream of vituperation heard plainly by passers-by in the corridor...
Herbert's object is to show his audience (estimated at 850,000) what goes on in the world-why the wind blows, what makes a cake rise, how water comes out of a kitchen tap. To explain rain, he boils water in a coffee pot, compares the steam to clouds, and shows how "rain" will condense on the sides of a glass held over the spout. He demonstrates static electricity with a charged rubber comb, lets it pick up a cluster of cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using...
...member of the coaching staff will do the narration and explain the highlights of the game...