Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onto a beach near Fort Pierce, Fla., last week. Boaters and state conservation agents dragged the cetaceans, of the species Pseudorca crassidens, the false killer whale, back into deep water. But the whales doggedly finned themselves onto the sand again, and 125 died. Scientists were at a loss to explain the mass death wish: perhaps a leader gone berserk, or a quirk of weather or topology that disoriented the whales' biological sonar systems. To those who see omens, it seemed that the whales were trying to tell us something. To those who have read the remarkable novel...
...even if Harvard escapes the spectre of domain, it should explain fully, once and for all, its reasons for keeping the Patriots out of the Stadium. And the reasons as Boston College will attest, are several...
...tranquilizer game has its merits. In the winning effort the horse is not drugged. The trainer can explain that he worked some soreness out of the horse's legs. Many honest trainers can get one last race out of a sore performer before the horse goes completely lame, and the crooked trainer's explanation to the stewards must often be accepted...
...Subtlety. By the early 1920s, investigations into the atom had struck an impasse. The old Newtonian laws could explain such motions as those of the planets around the sun; they could not account for the subtle behavior of electrons whirling around the nucleus of an atom. Trying to work their way out of this quandary, Born and other scientists held that the motion of the electron was discontinuous or broken into pockets of energy called quanta. Others conceived of electrons as continuous, uninterrupted waves. Though these theories helped explain atomic phenomena, they could not tell physicists where an individual electron...
...difficult for me to explain the fierceness and the sense of haste which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences showed in dealing with this issue." he said. concluding that "the friendly association of many years between Harvard and the military services through which we assisted in providing for them many leaders of high competence will next year come to an end, a casualty of these troubled times...