Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asked to explain the relative impotence of the Eagles' offense, Silva shrugged and said, "they just couldn't finish...
...Just as I'm about to explain how I know, Professor Kernighan said very modestly, 'Uh, no, he works for me. I'm Brian Kernighan and introduces himself,'" Walfish says...
Perhaps I need something to explain why I can't concentrate on any source book readings for an extended period of time. Whenever lectures run longer than the allotted fifty minutes, I lose the rest of it. Are we slowly being conditioned by Harvard, in its attempt to make us world leaders, to accept nothing longer than an hour...
...emotional impact, the "new '60s" songs can't be compared with the originals; for that you'd have to be 15 again, your ear soldered to an AM radio in the urgent expectation that the next 3-min. jingle would explain and rectify your life. But the movies' songs--with their close-rockin' guitars, shivering tambourines and wall-of-sound studio skills--have a musical validity. Thirty years from now, they could be a new generation's invisible friends...
...Please explain to me how two people of the same sex who pledge to love each other in a legally recognized union are going to destroy marriage and by extension, society [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 16]? What is it about same-sex unions that heterosexuals find so threatening? Will more children be born out of wedlock? Will happily married couples call it quits because two men or two women are recognized as married? MARK F. PETERSON New York City