Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard speech Secretary Marshall made the second point clear, and he may well have been surprised at the intensity of Europe's reaction (see below). Other Americans besides Marshall understand the constructive side of the Truman Doctrine. One of them is Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs. In its current issue, Armstrong, after a two-month visit to Europe, says...
Ironically, Gandhi himself, who has spent a lifetime trying to direct the waters into disciplined channels, had helped to roil his people into turbulence. What he had called the "dumb, toiling, semi-starving millions," who revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
...less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from amateur ranks a year...
...than moneygrubbing; it was whatever interfered with living fully, in the moment. He was in pain much of the time. Lying on the cot in his cavelike "office" just off the gallery, he used to say that now he himself was "in retreat. I just lie here, trying to understand...
...University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Gilson Colby Engel protested that many stomach cancer deaths are unnecessary. X rays and the gastroscope can detect all but 8% of early cancers, said he, but neither patients nor doctors understand the need for such examinations. The average stomach cancer victim does not consult a doctor until 15 to 16 months after his symptoms begin. Anyone who begins to feel weak and tired, to lose his appetite for meat and to have indigestion before or after eating would do well to be examined at once for stomach cancer...