Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...also gave me a picture of the computing machine. I had to know what it looked like and if it was transportable. Furthermore, I needed TIME's conjectures as to the machine's future possibilities. Your story pointed out what the machine could do, so I could explain its potentialities without getting technical. That was just what I needed. Steve Canyon is like me-he can't even do long division...
...picked Lodge, Mitchell had to be careful about pressuring delegates. On the other hand he couldn't chance letting nature take its course. Through the night, hidden away from the crowds, he worked tirelessly on heads of delegations. "I'm not putting pressure on anyone," he would explain I'm just reminding friends they owe us loyalty...
...Paris conference on the Schuman Plan (see above), and the paper reported on a pamphlet entitled European Unity, put out by the Labor Party's National Executive Committee. The day the pamphlet reached the public, Attlee was slated to explain to the House of Commons that despite Britain's aloof attitude, the British government really wanted to cooperate in the Schuman Plan -at least in considering it. Yet the sweeping, truculent pamphlet seemed to proclaim to all the world that the British Labor Party wanted to do nothing more than blow the Schuman Plan to smithereens...
Last week 109 men of the congregation gathered in a stormy meeting. By an overwhelming majority, they reinstated the three Masons in the Fisherville church for a one-year probationary period. Nobody bothered to explain what "probationary period" meant. Pastor Bauer announced that if a call came to serve another congregation, he would accept...
...recorded, nationwide show, it has found' sponsors for its beery sentimentality on all but one of its 57 stations; appropriately, most of the sponsors are brewers. But in writing her own purple-prose commercials, Jean tries not to offend teetotalers : "After all, beer is here. I try to explain it as a wonderful refreshment-people don't have to become gluttons...