Word: explains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibility toward issues rather than personalities-the book does give a fair measure of the man. He emerges like a slightly shaken chairman of the board who considers it his duty to share his sense of crisis with the stockholders. "We in government have the obligation to explain our decisions," McNamara concludes, "for we know the consequences if we fail...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Council yesterday asked Dean Watson to explain his recent statements that a small group of radicals is behind most serious student unrest at Harvard...
HARVARD OFFICIALS announced last week that they would not be buying grapes in the foreseeable future. By however small a margin, the action has the effect of furthering the cause of the strikers, but administrative vice-president L. Gard Wiggins was careful to explain away even that small political gesture. Harvard wasn't taking a position on the strike, he said, grapes just won't be on the menu...
...discussion ended there. The man had clearly won his point. He had approached the debate not with condescension or anger, but with the patient attitude of the teacher who must explain a problem to a slow student. In the end the woman could not argue with the assumption that the balance between fear and security had to be preserved...
...Rudd is always being asked to explain things and is badgered by the press to vocal exhaustion. However, one can't help but feel that his tendency to let the urgency of political endeavor get in the way of a careful choice of his words is a little scary...