Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Prime Minister entered the House, looking even thinner of face than usual. At 3:47 the bulky frame of his First Lord of the Admiralty and longtime political enemy, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, appeared from behind the Speaker's chair. A minute later Mr. Chamberlain rose to explain to a hostile House the British failure in Norway. He had hardly begun when another old enemy made a perfectly timed entrance. The bronzed, white-maned picture of health at 77, David Lloyd George walked slowly along the Opposition's front bench and took his customary seat...
...editorial goes on to explain the demise of the department as a result of the small enrollment. With the graduation of three students this year only two will continue, while a staff of four would have to be retained...
...Ibilaos showed up, dressed in G-strings, scowling fiercely. Silently they shook hands all around, accepted the presents. Up to that point everything went well. Then suddenly, before the officials had a chance to explain the purpose of the confab, the Ibilaos vanished as they had come. It was all over...
...surprised as anyone in the park when I saw it in my hand," wailed Ump Wilson, trying to explain his unprecedented behavior. "It was the worst boner I ever pulled...
Professor Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Law School and his scholarly wife Eleanor know plenty about bad boys. They have studied bad boys-1,000 of them-for 15 years in Boston. By 1934, the Gluecks were ready to explain why the boys went wrong. This week they made a second report, Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up (Commonwealth Fund...