Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop to the practice a week ago Friday. In order to relieve the situation, the possibility of restrictions in some of the Houses if they should continue to carry the main load was mentioned yesterday, but O'Donnell stated that he was "confident undergraduates will cooperate when they understand the situation...
Because of the level from which they are picked, the graduates of the school will be the generals, admirals and ministers of tomorrow-the Marshalls, Kings, Arnolds, Eisenhowers and ambassadors of decades to come. If the hopes of the founders are fulfilled, future U.S. leaders will understand the process of "political relations" from A to Z-instead of A to M for one group and N to Z for another...
...battles, tired of digging for victory, tired of their drab, tasteless meals. They understood that Britain had to contribute food to the needy in Europe (1½ million tons since the end of the war), money to UNRRA ($320 millions already given, $320 millions more promised). They did not understand why the Treasury could not have allotted to dried eggs the $80 millions it allowed last year for purchase of Hollywood films. (Angry housewives cried: "We don't want Frank Sinatra. We want food.") Still less did they understand why their Labor Government had been less frank with them...
...scoffed at Tory demands in Parliament that the Sarawak State Council pass on her husband's proposal. "Poor darlings, don't they understand? The Sarawak people agree to anything the Raja wants. It's just a case of a few leading ones squatting on the verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...
Next day the French Government, not at all amused, dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...