Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like what happened," said the student who did not purchase the alco- hol. "I know friends of ours who went and did the same thing an hour before, bought more beer than we did. They went down to the Yale game while we had to try to explain what had happened to our parents...
...years at the University of Illinois before going to the [Peabody] conservatory. I'd say that in terms of intensity, a conservatory program is closer to graduate work. Even a music major at a four-year program has a very different experience. "Competitive" is possibly a word to explain this, but let's just say the level is higher. People are really aspiring, and the focus of the people around you is different...
...know that El Nino is caused by a decrease in the trade winds that blow east-west across the Pacific from Peru to Indonesia. To explain El Nino by global warming, you have to show that global warming caused these trade winds to cease...
PENIS PUZZLE Doctors can't explain why, but since 1970 the rate of boys born with their urinary opening in the wrong place has doubled. This peculiar defect appears in nearly 1 out of 100 male births...
Last year, for instance, I spent a lot of time on a theory designed to explain why Kenneth Starr had decided to quit as the Whitewater special prosecutor. It was based on the possibility that Starr, like many of the rest of us, had awakened one morning and been struck with the disquieting realization that he'd completely forgotten what the original Whitewater crime was supposed to have been. Then Starr decided not to quit after all. My only consolation was the thought that with so many investigations of Bill Clinton going on, someday I'll probably be able...