Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir Popomatov: "No iron curtain shall ever rise between us-none shall raise Chinese walls between progressive eastern and western workers. . . . Forward together, fighters for peace...
Girl: I couldn't understand it. He was about to strike his mother when...
Girl: I couldn't understand...
...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...
...resignation. Harlow is not one to resign under fire, but he probably realized that as a sick man he could not handle any squad trouble. With his dominating voice and energy gone, team spirit had to suffer, and those who cannot condone the player revolt can at least understand its causes...