Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, the Pearl Harbor investigation was the biggest running Congressional story in years. It was confused, difficult to understand and report. Most newspaper reporters tried to tell the story coherently, and did a good job with contradictory testimony that virtually defied untangling in the time they had to do it. But for the man who knew only what he read daily in the papers, it was tough going...
...bailed out, landed in a cornfield where the stalks were still standing, my leg hurt badly. . . . After a few hours peasants came to where I was lying. They said: 'Chetniks, Chetniks' and 'doctor, doctor.' They brought a two-wheeled cart and made me understand they were taking me to a doctor. The cart's jolting hurt my leg; when they noticed it, they placed me on some boards and carried...
They do not understand...
...While flying over vast expanses of the world as an Air Transport pilot," Ackerman says, "I had the idea that all the different peoples should be able to get closer together. There's a lot people right here in the U.S. can learn if they'll meet and understand each other...
...which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment and the adjustments the individual musicians make for it. Jazz, like most other...