Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about Senator Taft's charges that his anti-inflation proposals were totalitarian? No comment, said the President; the speech spoke for itself. If the questioner did not understand it, he could read it again...
...know very well that there is no simple solution to this problem. But I can neither understand nor excuse a Government which is too timid or befuddled to attempt a solution. . . . Even 75 to 100 million dollars in the present bill before the Congress for emergency aid to China would change the entire situation psychologically...
...imagination (like that of the world) had been caught by something he obviously did not fully understand. What a world organization might do was obviously worth all the nickels (and all the zlotys, francs, rupees and dollars) ever minted. That, however, was another question, and one frequently confused with what the United Nations was actually doing. Was it worth Sammy's nickel...
...from the National Bank of Siam. In orderly Western fashion, the Ministry accounted for the expenditure: "to pay coup expenses." Tango Interrupted. The coup itself had been orderly (one of the plotters described it as "very straightforward and very kind-hearted") but a little hard for Westerners to understand. The first point to get straight is that all Siamese politics turns around the rivalry between royalist Field Marshal Phibun (pronounced "fee bun") Songgram and republican Pridi Banomyong, who both went to school in France in the 1920s. The coup simply put Phibun's men in, tossed Pridi Banomyong...
...Meegeren was less pleased when D. A. Hoogendijk, a trusted Amsterdam dealer, who had sold two of the forgeries, testified sadly: "Now that I look around this courtroom and see all these paintings together, I don't understand how I could ever have believed them to be Vermeers...