Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first charge, as Honeycutt's 6 ft. 3 in. frame sagged limply in the chair, Mrs. Byrd said: "I'm not nervous. I don't know why I wanted to see it. I just can't explain it." Another surge of electricity stiffened Honeycutt's body and he was dead...
...vain did Greek officials explain that the yacht would actually save Greece money: when the King goes visiting among Greece's hundreds of islands, he now requires a destroyer, which is more expensive to operate than a nice new yacht would be. But Peurifoy did not see it that way. This week, palace spokesmen announced sadly that King Paul had cancelled the purchase of his dream boat...
Last week Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civiltà Cattolica, printed a significant article to explain how mistaken this idea was. "There are many sincere believers, Catholics full of idealism, who look with disquietude and almost a secret anguish on the diplomatic activity of the vicar of Jesus Christ. They would prefer . . . that the Church should never appear to be conniving with this or that policy or with any particular regime." Such notions, the article went on, grew out of ignorance of what Vatican diplomacy really is, or how much the spiritual good of Catholics can be benefited...
Drunken Rats. Dr. Williams' theory is that the craving for alcohol is one such disorder. (He does not explain why a need for vitamins should produce a craving for alcohol which contains no vitamins, and actually increases the need for them.) He tried the theory on rats, turning them into drunkards by deficient diets and curing them with walloping doses of vitamins...
Jordan declined to explain last night how he hoped the serial-number plan would work. "That was a closed meeting," the president said. "I have no comment to make...