Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...plans and builds to be ready for Japan in the Pacific. Since Japan, with eight to twelve new 45,000 tonners added to its present ten modern battleships, could beat the U. S. Navy's 14, Lem Speers's story was a shock. Some wiseacres tried to explain it all on the grounds that: 1) the U. S. Senate was about to take up a $963,799,478 Naval Appropriation Bill, a further authorization for $655,000,000 in future appropriations; 2) that Mr. Speers's story did Navy friends' cause no harm in Congress. Chief...
Pressed to explain, Janet ran a distraught hand through her hair and recabled: "Well, for example, in France nobody ever kills anyone he doesn't know." An American in Paris is a selection of the best of her New Yorker and Vanity Fair sketches. Each a mosaic of tidbits culled from hundreds of informants, each sleek with refined comedy, these reports and profiles are a valuable dossier on the very highest life of the past 20 years...
Certainly piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
When all this is done, the Indian Bureau will proceed to explain to the Navajos that they must reduce their stock. But the explanation, and the subsequent reduction, was inaugurated in 1934 and 1935. By the time the bilingual teachers get around to it, the Navajo stock will be reduced to the vanishing point. They think it's far too near that point already. Doesn't your article put the cart before the horse...
...extraordinary talent for mystification served him well in building up this question. "The Italian people." he said recently, "have realized that the pilot must not be disturbed, especially when he is engaged in stormy navigation. nor must he be asked questions about the course." Because he determined to explain nothing, to make no commitments, everyone wanted to ask questions of the laconic pilot whose course was puzzlingly zigzag-now pointing for one belligerent shore, now toward the other, back & forth...