Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DEPUTY, "JUST HAS NOTHING VERY MUCH TO OFFER THE PEASANTS." I AM AT A LOSS TO UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH AN ABSURD PHRASE COULD HAVE APPEARED IN MR. WELLES'S ARTICLE. "THERE ARE EVEN LEFTIST CABINET MINISTERS HERE WHO HATE RUSSIA" THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE HEARD FROM...
Many U.N. diplomats understand that to classify Gromyko it is necessary to realize that he is not only a new statesman, but a prototype of a new race of men. In Darkness at Noon, writing of those bullheaded, bull-minded men who grew up under the Revolution's rod, Novelist Arthur Koestler described that new race...
...swung at a reporter and kicked at photographers. Police met her at New York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy the climate with hired guards in residence...
...fact, he only stayed that way until the third chapter of Genesis. Then he had what the theologians call a Fall. He's never been the same since-not on his own. . . . The whole of the Bible and the whole of the ministry of Jesus, as I understand it, were designed not to persuade man how good he is on his own, but how evil he is on his own. And how good, by the process of redemption ... he can become...
...troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually slaughtered the women & children. Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer, for all his dashing aggressiveness, would have been discharged as a psychoneurotic. Menninger finds it hard to understand why the name of Custer still stands in U.S. history as that of "a great hero...