Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisdom. The U.S. was strong; it was generous. Was it also wise? History would have to judge; at least the people of the U.S. were showing their capacity to learn. Though they were still busy with their own affairs, Americans were beginning to understand the hard lesson they had first learned at Pearl Harbor: that they were also citizens of the world and that good citizens are responsible citizens...
Americans were beginning to understand what it meant to say: "I am an American." It meant more than owning the atom bomb, or having steak for dinner, or the inalienable right to yell "Kill the ump." It had begun to mean: "I am a citizen of a privileged and therefore obligated nation. I am no longer the prodigal son of Europe. I am my brother's keeper. But only free men can be my brothers...
Minnesota's dairy-defending G.O.P. Congressman Harold Knutson wrathfully contemplated the spectacle of city Republicans working for oleo with Southern Democrats. "You saps!" he screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...slightly confused reaction has characterized Radcliffe alumnae. They don't seem to understand exactly what has happened, and apparently assume that some cataclysmic step has remade the face of Radcliffe. Gentle reminders from the Dean's office of their own sojourn under University faculty members have so far served to clear up these misunderstandings...
...Cliffe Alumnae Don't Understand...