Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only way I can explain the present vogue [of modern art] is by the jaded appetites of our intelligentsia, their lack of faith in themselves and their fellow men, the artificiality of their way of life...
...said the President of the U.S. last week. Then he went on to explain. The U.S., said Harry Truman, was engaged in a police action. A "bunch of bandits" had attacked the Republic of Korea-a government established by the United Nations-and the Security Council had asked U.N. members to suppress this bandit raid. That was what the U.S. was doing. "We hope we have acted in the cause of peace-there is no other reason for the action we have taken," said Truman...
Princeton Physicist Henry D. Smyth (rhymes with blithe), author of the Smyth Report and now an AECommissioner, hustled up to the Capitol to explain that chairmanless AEC was already having trouble enough trying to plan an H-bomb. Pike's rejection would leave the five-man commission shy two men-and, Smyth argued, make it doubly difficult to find replacements. "There is no doubt in my mind of Mr. Pike's intelligence, integrity, and complete devotion to the national welfare," said Smyth. In the strange world of the atom, Pike-a retired Manhattan mining and utilities financier...
...also gave me a picture of the computing machine. I had to know what it looked like and if it was transportable. Furthermore, I needed TIME's conjectures as to the machine's future possibilities. Your story pointed out what the machine could do, so I could explain its potentialities without getting technical. That was just what I needed. Steve Canyon is like me-he can't even do long division...
This taut little novel takes a sharp look at one of the oldest problems in literature: the origins and consequences of a crime of passion. Like Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy, though on a far more modest scale, Novelist Foote has tried to find out and explain why a peaceable, inoffensive man can sometimes be driven to murder. He has set his story in his native Mississippi among the poor-white farmers and the small-town characters he intimately knows...