Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halles, "the belly of Paris," 250 market women left their stalls last week, crowded into a schoolroom where a plainly dressed woman, obviously and proudly pregnant, talked about food and coal. Her tone was conversational, her words easy to understand. She knew what interested them, did Jeannette Vermeersch. Listening to her was like a chat around a kitchen table. It was hard to realize that Jeannette Vermeersch might be the next First Lady of France...
...more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...
...over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike Schönberg, natty in a polka-dot bow tie, sat with his wife. The audience joined in more enthusiastically after Transfigured Night. Afterwards Schönberg said: "I have to hear my music ten times to understand it myself. It needs frequent hearing...
Cosmic rays are not only hard to observe but hard to understand. Dr. Swann believes they are protons and positively charged helium atoms which smack into the earth's atmosphere at enormous speeds. Where they come from, no one knows for sure...
...also wrestling with the artificial division of surpluses into capital and consumer goods. Identical items might be classified differently, warehoused thousands of miles apart, described in Army or Navy nomenclature no civilian buyer could understand...