Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near there, he eyed me suspiciously. I stood there with a blank look, and then after a few moments glanced at my watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood's color. Such nonsense! He knows nothing else to say. But black is the fascist color and I told him so at the meeting.' What Barbi said was true...
...three pals wandered around Nanking in a jeep, chased a couple of Chinese girls, and then stopped on the Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
...instance, when a fisherman said he had pulled "Wong's body" out of the river-and then admitted he had not known the deceased. "Then how did you know the body was Wong's?" Retorted the fisherman: "Wong's parents told me." Any Chinese could understand that, but it was "hearsay" in Anglo...
...understand very well why the biggest agencies, the Associated Press, the United Press, and International News Service so fiercely seek complete, unrestricted freedom for their irresponsible information -a full unlimited right to penetrate all nations, have their agents everywhere buy everywhere what they need, sell everywhere things that are profitable for them...
Divide & Weaken. The free-for-all was finally joined by somebody who really knows Yugoslavia, even though he has not been there for six years: the Rt. Rev. Iriney Georgevich, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, now living in exile in the U.S. Said he: "I was shocked. . . . I cannot understand how as servants of God [the seven Protestants] can accept so gladly an invitation from one of the most ruthless tyrannies the world ever has known. I can only ask these clergymen whether they would have thought it proper to accept an invitation from Hitler. . . . The tactics used by Tito...