Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this good temper was a little harder to explain, for beyond simply counting noses, the Government was setting out on a curbstone character reading of the country. One citizen in five who had reached the age of 14 was being asked how much money he made. The 140,000 census enumerators-all of them equipped with red, white & blue portfolios as big as window shutters-also wanted the answers to 418 square inches of questions in fine print...
With the air of a man walking tiptoe among political eggs (he did it with the aplomb of a ballerina), he appeared before a Senate appropriations subcommittee to explain the headlines he made the week before when he had said that the Administration was reducing the country's military strength beyond the point of safety...
...Revue de Paris, Billotte stated his case: "The war power of the U.S.S.R. is considerable. But it is only terrifying in contrast with the military weakness of the Western peoples. It is important not to be intimidated or inhibited about this. No future historian could ever manage to explain how 275 million Western Europeans, allied to 160 million Americans and Canadians, with their industrial and agricultural potential fully developed, could allow themselves to be crushed, dominated, dispersed or destroyed by Russia as she is now, with her potential only just born...
...great talker. Before his death in 1935, he awed his friends' by being able to discourse windily for hours on almost any subject. Among his accomplishments was his "discovery," around 1918, of an "element" now called vrilium, to which he attributed prodigious curative powers. Nelson did not explain exactly what he thought vrilium was, but he did claim that it was "radioactive...
...early 20s, Nelson started packaging a pinch of vrilium inside an ordinary two-inch-long brass cylinder. Popularly called "The Magic Spike," the cartridge was sold to people suffering from a variety of painful diseases. Nelson was always happy to explain how it worked: when the cylinder was attached to the lapel (or hung around the neck), there were "emanations" into the atmosphere for a distance of 20 feet, discouraging all sorts of disease germs. Meanwhile, the vrilium was supposed to "emanate" inward, restoring the buyer's sick body cells to normal...