Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were beginning to be heard. They had half expected that Harry Truman was going to ask for immediate mobilization. They were neither shocked nor surprised at his identification of Communist Russia as the enemy of their nation. His speech merely confirmed their views, although they still did not fully understand the crisis, which they thought should have been spelled out with more facts...
...There would be weddings between the boys and girls," she said, "but without the church." She blushed. "You understand? You see the danger...
Medicine's Job? Doctors must get better training in psychosomatic medicine, learn to recognize the serious biological effects of social sickness. A new kind of "group practice" would help them understand psychosocial medicine; the group should include doctors, social workers, nurses, clerks to take care of records, representatives of government health & welfare departments, perhaps of industry. The group might decide that while the symptoms were the patient's, the causes were society's, and recommend changes...
...postwar trip to Europe, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture of the victors...
Americans who go abroad will "acquire a background which will enable them better to understand the problems which now face the countries they visit...