Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This was the case in Korea. While the new definition would probably not have subdued in the least the stream of propaganda which flowed out of the hills of North Korea, the method for determining aggressors would have made it a little harder for the North Koreans to explain why it was they, and not the South Koreans, who were deep inside the other's territory...
Trying to explain all the contradictions, one board member insisted that the whole experiment was "not segregation but congregation-of friends." Said Board Chairman Harold Rogers: "Some people thought we were grouping according to religion. Broadly speaking, I suppose we are. but that is secondary. Our main purpose was to evolve some sort of plan which would make everyone happy...
John stands in obvious awe of his older brother, yet likes to needle him gently for his plodding, painstaking ways. "Remember the watermelons, George?" he likes to say. John goes on to explain: "George came in one morning and wanted to see our produce people. He said our prices were out of line on watermelons. He'd stopped off at the Washington Market on his way in and saw some melons cheaper than ours. The produce man answered, 'Those melons are smaller.' 'No, they're not,' said George, 'I measured them...
...stressed, adding, "Christianity is the most materialistic of the religions. Another misconception concerning Christianity is that 'man shall be conceived in sin'. This is not a Christian conviction; actually the story of Adam and Eve from which it stems was a clumsy attempt of the early Hebrews to explain how sin came into the world...
...Street, reported her house pet missing last week. It was a black tabby cat with a white spot on its chest. Mrs. Fosby never overfed the animal ("so the poor thing would not be fat and unhappy in her old age") and reported it altogether contented. She could not explain the disappearance...