Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monica and Kathleen and Dolly and the whole national conversation about what kind of sex isn't really sex. And just as the pain grew most acute, when accusers were unearthed almost daily with old charges ranging from rudeness to rape, Judgment Day came at last. We could finally understand that Clinton was willing to bet his presidency on a trial--because he might just get it back...
...those who said it was now likely that Starr would just shrivel up and go away don't understand the man or his four-year mission. While the Jones matter rested on her word against the President's, Starr is armed with tape-recorded assertions by Lewinsky that implicate Clinton in sexual acts he specifically denied under oath and in an attempted cover-up of those acts. "Our facts are very different; our scope is very different," Starr told reporters as he recited the allegations that the Attorney General instructed his office to examine: subornation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses...
...that many patients really do say they feel better after TT treatment. Emily's experiment shows that TT does not work the way its advocates claim. But what nobody has done--neither Emily nor the die-hard skeptics who were so quick to champion her findings--is try to understand why TT does anything at all. Maybe it's just a placebo effect. Maybe the simple fact that someone is hovering over you, paying attention to you, has therapeutic value. But, if so, that's not such a bad thing. And what harm would there be in learning...
...constellation of lifelong female friends, who helped to assuage an enduring sense of loneliness. When Franklin was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her political activism became an even more vital force. She became Franklin's "eyes and ears," traveling the country gathering the grass-roots knowledge he needed to understand the people he governed...
...course, these educated men of Harvard are only interested in Playboy for the stimulating and exciting articles so there should be no cause for alarm, that, for example, women are unwelcome there; nonetheless, we understand why some members would take offense at having the some-what lurid publication in the barbershop. After all, as it says on the magazine itself, it is "Entertainment...