Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions came fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
...could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge Russia in the interests of peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government is admittedly ugly and confused in action, she says, but if the U.S. waits...
...entry resident voiced an unusual inconvenience yesterday. "I don't mind the drilling and sawing in the early morning. I don't mind the hammering. The trouble is that the workmen tell all their jokes in Italian, and I don't understand Italian...
...experiments with chimpanzees and the even more primitive cebus monkey proved that these animals can understand symbols representing food, water or piggyback rides. Therefore they have the basic tools for rudimentary thinking...
...Department of Agriculture has already spent $35 million on a slaughter program in Mexico and failed to wipe out the disease (TIME, Dec. 8). Now, because of the rebellion of Mexican campesinos, who could not understand why their cattle should be given up to slaughter, the killing has been stopped (except animals actually infected) in favor of quarantine and vaccination of all Mexican cattle. But Bob Kleberg storms that neither of these methods has ever proved effective unless accompanied by slaughter and burial...