Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Could the President explain why his friend Edwin Pauley was asked to testify on Korea before the Senate Armed Services Committee? (Presumably, Pauley's testimony was designed to show how foresighted he had been as a reparations commissioner in Korea in 1946, but some Republicans turned his testimony back on the Democrats: if he warned of trouble, why wasn't he heeded...
...sell the West a plan for a "peaceful settlement" of the Korean war which calls for appeasing Russia by admitting Red China into the U.N. (TIME, July 31). Last week, Nehru went before the Indian Parliament to ask approval for his Korea policy (which he got) and to explain India's position in the struggle between Communism and the West...
...This here song," the late Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter used to explain, "was made about a man an' a girl was walkin' along one Sunday evenin'. Jus' befo' this girl an' man got to de house, she said, 'You ask my mother for me, when you get home.' The man tol' her, 'All right' . . . An' he went back to de girl an' she say, 'What did mamma tell you?' He looked at Irene-her name was Irene-an' here what he said ..." Then...
Missing in most new, dehydrated record versions was old Lead Belly's closing verse, moaned by "de man," Lead Belly used to explain, "wid his head hung down, cryin...
...Teresa did her best to explain the higher stages of mental prayer. For example: "I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, of such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision . . . The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, though it is not lost, does not reason...