Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Spokesmen for the Selective Service System (SSS) yesterday renewed their refusal to explain how they will identify and apprehend the approximately 250,000 19- and 20-year-old men who did not register for the draft last summer...
...methods would have to vary from state to state, depending on local jurisdiction," Davidson said, declining to explain the system's plans in more detail...
...help explain its case abroad, the Baghdad government already had sent Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow and Paris. He assured the Soviets, who apparently were as much surprised by the outbreak of war as the Americans, that Baghdad's goals were limited, but he also pressed unsuccessfully for fast military resupply. Like Washington, Moscow was quick to proclaim its neutrality-understandable since it could not afford to offend either party. For the Soviets to openly back the Iranian regime would be to go against their ties and friendship treaty with Iraq. To back Iraq could mean...
...withholding evidence from the court, since under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 it can become the courts' responsibility to decide whether junior faculty members like Blaubergs have been given fair consideration. Said Owens: "This court can't determine whether or not you did that unless you explain to the court what you individually did and why you did it." To pressure Dinnan to testify, Owens fined him $100 a day for 30 days, and then sentenced him to 90 days in jail. Faculty colleagues raised most of the $3,000 to pay the fine. To sharpen...
...make an inventory of Hopper's sources does not explain either the quality of his paintings or their grip on the viewer. In part, these come from his sense of place and his unsparing, discreet eye for the truth of a scene. Anyone who has spent time on the sea knows that nothing, in terms of observation, is missing from his images of Truro on Cape Cod, like The Martha McKean of Wellfleet, 1944. From the humping blue of the water to the mild sun on the belly of the gaff-rigged sail, it is all there, immemorial...