Word: explainers
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Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make...
Genscher's roots help explain his passion for unification. Born in Halle in 1927, Genscher was drafted into Hitler's military at age 15 and manned the radar for antiaircraft guns; after the war his hometown became a part of East Germany, and in 1952 he fled to West Germany. Since the early 1970s, when travel restrictions between East and West Germany were eased, he has regularly made visits to Halle, keeping in touch with friends and family as well as with the mood in the East...
...chokes on her outrage. "Why do we have to explain ourselves so much...
That remarkable statistic helps explain why Australia is a leader in anti- skin cancer campaigns. Each year during National Skin Cancer Awareness Week, literature and posters are distributed and dermatologists conduct free skin-cancer screenings. In the state of Victoria, lifeguards are used as role models. They sit in shaded areas, pass out skin-cancer literature, don hats and wear T shirts emblazoned with the slogan SLIP! SLOP! SLAP! -- which practically everyone Down Under understands to mean "Slip on a shirt. Slop on some sunscreen. Slap...
...blame Ash for failing to explain the beginnings of the antidomino effect. But in this, the weakest essay of the five, he at least could have mused in a more explanatory...