Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said to Secretary Acheson, "would you like to make any comment about the Alger Hiss convic tion of perjury?" The Secretary paused a moment on the fateful cue. "Senator, I was not notified that I would have to make any comment," he replied. "If the committee wishes me to explain what I said, I'll do it. I have no desire to do it." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a prepared state ment, and an aide behind him began pass ing out mimeographed texts to newsmen in the room. His hands trembling, Dean Acheson began...
...Force's case was easily argued. But why, in the age of H-bombs and long-range bombers, did the U.S. need_a bigger Navy? Sherman's predecessor, amiable, ineffectual Louis Denfeld, had never been quite able to explain. Once when a J.C.S. member asked him about the Navy and its plans for antisubmarine warfare, Denfeld sighed: "Oh, you wouldn't understand...
...Something Snapped." This week Dr. Sander took the stand and in a calm voice told his story. "I never had any intention of killing Mrs. Borroto," he said. He too, he testified, had thought she was dead when he entered her room. "I can't explain exactly what action I took then. Something snapped. Why I did it I can't tell. It doesn't make sense...
...generalities, no overall statements of guilt accepted. And this went on, hour after hour, throughout the night, throughout the day, without respite or end. How can I best explain? The only straw for which I could reach is the impression that I had, in my emptied, vacant thoughts, of some sentence that had pleased them, or that had conformed with the pattern I had so often seen in the newspapers. And if I were to stop and plead fatigue, or poor memory, or ask to rest-the wall again, and the slaps, and the blows in the nape...
...almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman. Just before he left New York, Li had a cablegram. From Formosa, President Chiang expressed hope that Acting President Li would, indeed, be able to return soon. But nobody really thought that...