Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having my brother on the team is too bad," Blake said. "Eventually you have to get out of this place. I understand that, and it didn't factor...
After my experiment last week, I do have much hope for Harvard. There really is the potential for such a strong and unique community at Harvard--one which is not plagued with a passive student body, but with perceptive and intense young adults, seeking to understand and be understood by others and not afraid to show their eagerness...
Americans in foreign lands have always encountered the sort of foreigners who like to begin conversations by expressing their inability to understand something about America, as in "I've never understood why you Americans insist on running everything" or "I don't understand why so many Americans are racist, imperialistic thugs...
...always tended to say something insulting about the other person's country in return. (This may be the sort of thing the career counselors had in mind when they said the diplomatic corps was not a realistic option for me.) If a Frenchman expresses his inability to understand why Americans eat so much frozen food, I can be counted on to steer the conversation around to the wartime behavior of Vichy France...
...discuss with someone I've just met--at least, judging by what's been in the papers, more old-fashioned than the President--I wasn't looking forward to remarks like "I've never understood why you Americans are so hung up on sex" or "I can't understand why you Americans continue to make such randy people President...