Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grow older, imagination tends to be more and more underrated. Somewhere around seventh grade, people cease telling us to imagine and start telling us to analyze, and most of us do just that. But today, some imagination will be crucial to understand what we are about to explain. So pull out that rusty old dream machine and imagine, if you will, the following scenario...
...surrender? That had been the victory slogan for World War II, and the U.S. now seemed to expect nothing less every time. If Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged down a President and came close to destroying the Army. While the G.I.s of World War II were loved, the grunts of Vietnam...
...ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived. How had it happened? If it was necessary to exterminate Hitler and his works, it was equally necessary to try to understand...
This wedding, on a dark day of a troubled, distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper came closest to saying what it meant...
...touchstone for this common sense. Rather than strike a pose of pessimism about all values, we must hew to certain basic ones, such as doing what's best for our kids. Rather than view individual rights as being at odds with a compassionate sense of community, we must understand that America's historic magic has been to create a social fabric that is strong because it weaves these two strands together...