Word: explained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me? Then what must I do? Commit suicide? That is the situation I am in -your guest. For me the situation is inconceivable. I cannot find words to explain this to my people...
...National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget before Congress, the Cabinet, and the National Security Council...
...what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into an admission of memory. Asked to explain a witness' report that he had remarked that both English and French were spoken in Montreal shops, he answered impatiently: "I don't know how I know that. I just know...
POLITICAL: Survival, as an end, confuses political purpose. For example, U.S. leaders had to try to explain the Korean war as a challenge to U.S. survival, with the result, says Ways, that "the public had no image of what the U.S. was trying to win," was thoroughly confused about objectives once the Reds were driven back across the 38th parallel. The Russians start with objectives that link both military and political planning and keep them closely coordinated. "We have whole categoric? of political objectives which our disordered ethics forbids us to defend by force...
...Oasis of Quiet. Wouk wrote the book for his fellow laymen. Gentile as well as Jew, but many a rabbi will read it for pointers on how to present and explain the meaning of the Sabbath and the holy days, the sacred symbols and rites of the Torah, the Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms...