Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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White House Aide Charles Ross tried to explain. "In the field of foreign relations there can be only one voice stating the position of the United States," he said. "This is regarded as being of fundamental constitutional importance...
What the Army failed to explain was why only one doctor in each city was interested in such a profitable sideline. In Washington the Army's Surgeon General, Major General Raymond W. Bliss, was quick to announce that he would investigate the whole affair. Just to make sure, Georgia's Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, decided to turn a congressional X ray on the situation himself...
Nabbed at Nice by French police as she was about to board a plane for Tunis, Couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli tried to explain why she was carrying with her $1,485 in undeclared U.S. bills (which were confiscated), plus several items of jewelry which she had reported stolen the previous week. Released after six hours of questioning, she could only sputter: "I am furious." Later, she told newsmen that she hadn't bothered to report the jewels' recovery because the main item, a set of diamond pins on a chain, valued at $5,714, was still missing...
...would be helpful if you would explain to the large number of the nation's 80 million life insurance policyholders who read TIME that we did it for them. Insurance generally is written and priced to protect the ordinary person from the usual hazards. If we were suddenly to accept a large number of new policyholders with a special potential hazard, it might be at some jeopardy to the protection of the 80 million. Our view is that all the people . . . should underwrite the war hazard, just as all the people pay the other costs...
Facts & Theories. The members of the symposium had few theories to explain these many puzzling facts. But just making a start on collecting the facts was the fulfillment of a 20-year dream for the U.S.'s Dr. Alexander Symeonidis, who had long been urging just such a meeting. Dr. Symeonidis is consultant to the recently formed Geographic Pathology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, Md. Said Cancer Expert Symeonidis...