Word: explains
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...unlikely to gain him many points for decisiveness since he waffled for months on the issue before doubling back on his campaign position. Public support for his performance abroad has plummeted since January, and Clinton hopes a high-profile trip to honor the World War II generation will help explain his policies in the post- cold war era. "He needs a lift," said an official, and foreign trips always give him a lift. Last year's visits to Tokyo and Vancouver, for example, as well as this year's trip to Russia, proved that Clinton has diplomatic skills...
Those who knew her or watched her from afar groped for the words that could explain their feeling of loss. A friend of hers said, with a soft, sad voice, that what we're losing is what we long for: the old idea of being cultivated. "She had this complex, colorful mind, she loved a turn of phrase. She didn't grow up in front of the TV set, but reading the classics and thinking about them and having thoughts about history. Oh," he said, "we're losing her kind...
...White House, and our parents who wept that weekend long ago, and our children who have only a child's sense of who and what she was. I wish we could stand on the sidewalk as the caisson passes, and take off our hat, and explain to our sons and daughters and say, "That is a patriot passing by." I wish I could see someone'slittle boy, in a knee-length coat, lift his arm and salute...
Most people (and, I suspect, The Crimson) have little concept of what folklore entails. while The Crimson had the opportunity to educate the public about the study of folklore, it did not even attempt to define the field or explain what it is that keeps our committee together...
Kilson said he wrote the letter to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in order to explain the reasons for his dissenting vote in last week's government department decision to recommend Widner for tenure...