Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...pays what Suez Canal tolls to whom, was ready to allow removal of the last blockships and the waterway could be cleared within the month (see FOREIGN NEWS). This week the President will send former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James P. Richards to the Middle East to explain the doctrine to Middle Eastern leaders...
Most readers, and most officials concerned with the hillbilly headache, applauded Norma Lee. Scores of Southerners-including some who have migrated from the -same areas themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman...
From there out the movie's scenes explain, without too much professional slang and yet without talking down to the cheap seats, how Jim came to see the irony of the words he once hurled in anger at his psychiatrist (Adam Williams): "Listen! If it hadn't been for [my father] standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today...
...purpose. But it purposes much less to show that capital punishment is bad, than that the ideas of responsibility and duty on which the law rests dissolve in the confusion of human relations. Though they may be a part of lives, these ideas collapse when they are used to explain life...