Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statistics, official reports, newspaper clippings-and weave them into a pattern that is not only meaningful but brightly his own. Says "Jimmy" Sheean: "He is no mere compiler, for all his massive array of facts. He has repeatedly proved readable to a degree which no assembly of facts could explain. The zest with which he relishes his material gives it the breathless flavor of discovery every time, even aside from the liveliness of the writing." Gunther's success as a popularizer also springs from his skill in communicating ideas in terms of people. "Gunther is a firm believer...
...last-ditch plea for the President to sign. Nebraska's Carl Curtis backed him up, and North Dakota's Milton Young remarked tartly that President Eisenhower had certainly not been talking about farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession pump-primers currently in favor with both the Administration and Congress. Utah's Arthur Watkins argued against a caucus resolution...
...editor under a dangling Damocles' sword. The opposition Ulus has been cut to one-fifth its normal supply, forcing a reduction in its circulation from 100,000 to 20,000. "They'd cut me off entirely," says Publisher Kasim Gulek, "but it would be difficult to explain why they want to ruin the newspaper founded by Ataturk...
...Texas, White joined the A.P. in 1926, had become its general night editor in Manhattan headquarters before he went off to cover the war in Europe. Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed up for his column as soon as it was offered...
...pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...