Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reluctant Yielding. A better name for the Administration's program would be "administered inflation." Controls, the controllers explain, are designed to yield reluctantly to inflationary pressures...
...only gave him his freedom, but pleased 36,000 people who voted for him as Kentucky's secretary of state while he was in a mental hospital. ¶ FBI agents discovered that an excuse which 14-year-old Patsy Whiting of Green Bay, Wis. brought to school to explain a day's absence was incorrect. Patsy hadn't had a cold at all; she had ridden to Laona (pop. 1,113), Wis. with her 41-year-old mother and her half brother, 24-year-old Charles French Jr., and, after all had pulled on masks...
...Stokes's theory is right, it goes far to explain why poliomyelitis has been a serious problem in Southern California, with its high living standards and good sanitation, and rare amid the poverty and open sewers of Mexico's Lower California. Most U.S. babies, while enjoying their brief afterbirth immunities, are so carefully guarded against infection that they have no chance to develop active immunities of their own. Whereas Mexican babies in Lower California presumably are exposed to polio, and develop lifelong "active" immunities...
...from me to try and explain the movie. Perhaps it should be said that the film is not all abstract. A great deal of emotion fuses the color and sounds together. And for those who have a dread of the esoteric, it might be added that their baser instincts will be thoroughly aroused by a number of the scenes. Apparently everything passed over the head of the censors except Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." On her, they have had some black discs appropriately placed. But throughout the rest of the film the libidos of the painters and musicians have...
...assassin's Afghan origin might explain his motive-but Afghanistan hastily pointed out that he had been driven out of Afghanistan in 1944 for conspiring against the government. The other possibility was that he belonged to a sect advocating war with India over Kashmir...