Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first part of this policy which Clay has to explain is the experiment of international administration with Russia, which this country, together with Great Britain and France, tried to perform in Germany. Clay suggests the obvious, and therefore often overlooked, explanations for a project which failed badly. "We should continue to be proud... that we made this effort," he writes. "The present unhappy world situation has come about through the intransigence of others than ourselves...
...Speaking about your newspapers, I did not know what I was in for when I began buying your comics for my children. At all times of the day my five-year-old son will poke one of them in my face and ask me to explain it to him ... It seems crazy from the beginning. How am I to explain this mad whirlwind of animals rushing about in cars, getting entangled in telephone wires, or being blown to bits by explosives...
...week long, Dewey tried to soften the crushing effect of the Hanley letter (TIME, Oct. 23). There was a lot to explain away: 74-year-old, debt-ridden, half-blind Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, "humiliated, disappointed and heartsick" because he was not going to run for governor and Tom Dewey was, had written that Dewey had made him "certain unalterable and unquestionably definite propositions" to free Hanley of debt, if he would take the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator instead...
...from Kentucky. When someone would shout: "Where's the wife?" the Veep would explain that Mrs. Barkley hadn't come along this trip, but he hoped to bring her soon "and I know you will fall in love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered...
Sockol's letter was written to explain to Dean Watson that the John Reed Club had not gone "underground" or dissolved. According to the letter, "neither alternative describes the real situation...