Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first duty of an ambassador is to explain the regime of the country he represents. In this sense Comrade Popovich had made a good start. He had demonstrated to the people of the U.S. that a Tito Communist is still a Communist...
Planted thick with seedling hints that help to explain Grant's military greatness, Lloyd Lewis' Volume I is biography's richest, most persuasive treatment of Grant's youthful years. As such, it is also profoundly unsatisfying, for it is the end of his work. Behind him Biographer Lewis left a pile of unused research for two or three more volumes...
...explain that we went into Revere and found police who could not, would not, and did not do their duty?" he asked...
When officials discovered a chart next to the new phones with check marks indicating the number of successful "penny" calls, the company removed the machines entirely. They were at a loss to explain the failure of their specially devised "spin-proof" shaft...
That was Manager Fisher's explanation. A little harder to explain was the fact that the second-night audience was just as hostile. Lifar himself was not talking. But if revenge was what Lifar's friends were looking for, they found it even sweeter in the reaction of Paris ballet critics. In the press next day, they did their share of booing and catcalling, too. Wrote one: "Frankie and Johnny . . . was a disaster, a monstrous exhibition ... in the worst of German taste...