Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year officials again expect a deficit since the athletics problems still isn't solved. Endowments, they explain, are often nullified by the inflation spiral...
Since the few Chinese officers captured by U.N. forces in Korea have generally been closemouthed, U.N. interrogation officers wanted to know why Fan was being so talkative. Fan was glad to explain. Last May, he found three Chinese WACs in the division to which he was assigned as "entertainment officer" (i.e., a job somewhere between U.S.O. director and political commissar). "One," he said, "was a beautiful young girl named Toy. We fell in love. It was not at all bad being so far away from home under those conditions. Then the division commander began to notice...
...ones from two of theater's greats. He tests Bernard Shaw's theory that audiences will listen to anything so long as it is amusingly said, and adapts from Chekhov the technique of having an actor, when necessary, move down to the footlights and explain to the audience what kind of man he is. One neat touch: the dedication "to that one who has inspired man's unending battle against Death, and without whom that battle is never won . . . the patient...
...Pauling resonance theory of chemical bonds is of little interest to the toiling masses. It uses the difficult methods of quantum mechanics to explain how the "resonance" (internal vibrations) of atoms makes them join together into molecules. Parts of the theory are still to be worked out, but other parts have been embedded in advanced textbooks for years. Biochemists rely on it to understand the complex molecules in living cells...
...world see you as the fool whom God sees, whenever a suitable occasion arises. And it is humiliating to think how much of our unpublished thought process is devoted to doing just the opposite-trying to put ourselves in the right, to mask our ignorances, to explain away our failures, to pretend that the gaffe meant something else. Oh, we laugh at ourselves in private, that costs us nothing. We even amuse our friends, and cultivate a reputation for modesty, by dwelling on the record of our own discomfitures-afterwards, when we are in safe company. But really...