Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daily Lesson. So far, Rome's response has been gentle. Having no lines of communication with its captive flock in China, Vatican officials explain, the church cannot distinguish clearly between Chinese priests forced to collaborate under extreme duress and those who merely succumb to ambition...
...statements, had "never lifted a finger" to help get Republican support for the bill. On the other hand, said Kennedy, the National Association of Manufacturers, after discovering features objectionable to management in the bill, had flooded the House with "intemperate, exaggerated and misleading attacks." Speaker Rayburn chimed in to explain that he sat on the bill 41 days in hope of rounding up votes enough to suspend House rules and bypass Barden's committee. That gambit failed when the N.A.M. stirred up too many "noes...
...Iceberg. Brash young Review-men got E.M. Forster to explain why he stopped writing novels in 1924, James Thurber to discuss the difference between American and British humor, William Faulkner to talk about his technique, recorded equally penetrating chats with Francois Mauriac, Joyce Gary, Robert Penn Warren and other literary lights. Result: 21 interviews in the Review and a book (Writers at Work; Viking...
Before sending his cable, Kubitschek called together 400 top-ranking military men to explain Brazil's relations with the U.S. "We recognize," he said, "the heavy burden borne by the U.S. in the common battle for the defense of the West and our civilization's highest values. We must maintain with the great North American republic the indestructible relations which have become our common heritage and which must not be weakened...
...theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work...