Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yield to a woman's tears. "Give her an opportunity to regain self-control. Let her know you're available to discuss anything she wants to bring up. Explain the situation in detail. Above all, don't dismiss a tearful girl with an offhand: 'Go wash your face; you'll feel better.' Reconcile yourself to the fact that in most cases the cause of a woman's tears are beyond your control...
...then Togliatti lacked Khrushchev's claim to a previously terrorized silence. In free Italy, Togliatti had exhibited a slavish adulation for the dictator, had cried tearfully on news of Stalin's death, "He was a giant of thought and action." Last week his feeble effort to explain away this attitude, however unsatisfactory and irrational, accurately reflected the confusion of mind which had overtaken the Italian Communist Party...
...doors away, at almost the same time, Gordon M. McMullin, 53, died in the same way. Quick autopsies showed that both patients had been dosed with sodium nitrite, a powerful poison used as a hospital cleansing agent, instead of sodium phosphate, a mild cathartic. Shocked hospital authorities refused to explain the matter until they had made an investigation, but the district attorney's office, opening a full-scale inquiry, indicated that an employee of the hospital pharmacy had been temporarily transferred to other work. He apparently had reached for the wrong container...
...collection of all his poems Tennessee Williams, 42, "wishes to preserve." His publisher believes that they would make him an "important poet if he had not written a line for the stage." What is nearer the truth is that their interest derives from the way they help explain the roiled and vaporous creative innards of the tortured little man who is rated the nation's No. 1 playwright by most U.S. critics...
...national furor over The Search for Bridey Murphy (TIME, March 19), one rational theory gained ground to explain how a hypnotized housewife in Colorado could "recall" a 19th century existence as Bridey, a redhead in Cork. The theory: Housewife Virginia Tighe, under hypnosis, had simply woven the story out of odds and ends that lay in her subconscious mind from childhood. That was the trail that Hearst's Chicago American took in searching for Bridey Murphy. Digging into Mrs. Tighe's Chicago childhood, American reporters found a wealth of names and incidents that looked plainly like...