Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport en route to Japan a Marine officer tried to explain that to his men. The inevitable question: "You mean we can't say the Japs are dirty little blank blanks...
...President's luck was good. He often scooped in the chips when nobody called his raise. Whenever anybody won on an uncalled hand, the President invariably smiled and referred to it as "an Archbishop of Canterbury hand." He used the phrase often, but he would not explain...
Last week the Guv'nor traveled to "Spouter's Corner" in Hyde Park (London's Union Square) to explain the theory and practice of house snatching. Before his speech, Cowley's Brighton boys gave a practical demonstration by "snatching" an empty house in London's Maida Vale for an Army gunner's wife and sick daughter. Said the Guv'nor grimly: the Vigilantes had put their fingers on one of Britain's aching nerves; from all over the country requests were pouring in for the formation of new Vigilante groups. In Clacton...
...bank's directors resisted, fearing for the currency. They tried to explain to Velasco the financial facts of life. But the President did not share their worries. So the board of directors resigned. The bank got new directors. President Velasco got the money...
...crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...