Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guilelessness to get agreement where no agreement seemed possible. She brought flights of oratory to earth with such innocent remarks as "I am probably the least learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle with Indian and Russian delegates, she insisted that such words as "caste" and "class" were "outgrown." "We admit caste and class distinctions do exist, but we don't try to emphasize them," she declared firmly...
...combatting Communism in the United States, Conant said that the best way to refute Communist propaganda in the United States is to understand it and tear it to pieces...
...earnestly, giving the Council the most logical, balanced and damning indictment yet made of Russia's actions in Berlin. Said he: "The acts of the Soviet Government . . . create a threat to the peace. All the world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous to the suffering of millions . . . We are well aware of course that . . . the Soviet...
...imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music, or, for that matter, modern science...
...American Civil Liberties Union was not so hopeful about Olivet's future. Reported its investigating committee: "It is apparent that Dr. Ashby does not understand the traditions and conditions of academic freedom and responsibility...