Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With some distaste, London journalists did their best to explain to their readers the strange marital customs of the U. S. South. But it soon turned out that Mrs. Lewis was even kinda younger than her husband saw fit to say. Memphis court records showed her age to be 13, and her quickie marriage last December took place more than five months before Jerry's divorce from wife...
...candor--and good taste. In fact, I strongly suspect that hardly anyone has ever seen love and sex handled so suavely in real life. Moreover, all four of the film's female leads live up to both Sweden's and Brigitte Bardot's reputations for young womanhood; this may explain the appeal of Sweden to nearly anyone who sees the film...
...Lepkowski started his class cautiously, soon found that little boys could "go much deeper in the search for facts than anyone would imagine is possible." First areas for the search: the insides of small gasoline and electric motors, which the young scholars can now take apart and explain. The boys ask hard questions, e.g., why do salt and sugar crystals, seen under a borrowed microscope, look different? In the older boys' science class, taught for $5 an hour by Junior High Science Teacher Arthur Olson, the students have gone far beyond their age group in studying the solar system...
...state and city officials, port authority members, engineering company executives, etc., is to the pork barrel what Boston is to baked beans. Last week doughty Budget Director Maurice H. Stans. who doesn't care beans about pork-barrel politics, went before an N.R.H.C. conference in Washington to explain why there just isn't enough money for all the rivers and harbors projects that the organization urges on Congress. In fiscal 1959. said Stans, the Federal Government faces a deficit of $8 to $10 billion. True enough. President Eisenhower sent to Congress last January a 1959 budget showing...
...days later the school board notified him that he was suspended. Helmuth Wipprecht hit the roof, where many of the children's parents had preceded him. "I don't see how any teaching can explain the meaning of the Seventh Commandment without reference to sex.'' he exploded. "You might as well try to explain about fishing without using the word fish." When the board complained that he was dealing with a controversial subject, he countered that "if some people are against adultery, and it is controversial, then some people must be in favor...