Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he assured the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that he had "nothing to hide," Thomas Dodd had a lot to explain. Defending himself before six of his peers last week against charges of misconduct, the senior Senator from Connecticut lengthily and indignantly denied any wrongdoing. Taken at face value, his testimony bared instead an unexpected streak of naivet...
Aside from Romney, few governors have higher political ambitions, which may explain their silence on Vietnam. Their greatest importance, as far as affecting policy is concerned, will be the effect of their showing on their states' congressional delegations. If Romney, for example, runs strongly, he may defeat all four of Michigan's marginal Congressional seats and sweep newly-appointed Senator Robert Griffin into a full term. The expected weak showing of Governor Rockefeller of New York, on the other hand, may help produce surprise victories for three or four marginal Democrats--a result which would tend to overstate the President...
...rockers are as ready to explain their "hidden meanings." That would destroy the mystique. As a result, the pop-music audience has become divided into two camps: the Dirties, who read debauchery into the most innocuous lyrics (they see Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night, for example, as a song about a homosexual pickup), and the Cleans, who would argue that Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned is a call to take part in a Mississippi freedom march. To the Dirties, such songs as Straight Shooter (junkie argot for someone who takes heroin intravenously...
...those pragmatic grounds the court turned down the appeal of Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, two New Jersey Negroes who had killed a storekeeper while robbing him in 1958. But what kind of legal gymnastics could explain why the constitutional privileges which had only recently saved other confessed murderers did not apply...
...interiors so that the salesman's desk blocks the doors, making it difficult for a prospect to leave before putting his own John Hancock on a policy application. In the vans salesmen also recruit and train small-town insurance brokers for the company, and help regular brokers explain complicated life and group insurance policies to prospects...