Word: understandable
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...those who haven't consumed a steaming-hot H & H bagel at three o'clock on a Sunday morning, it may be difficult to understand what all the fuss is about. But just as the art expert will never be able to convey to the color-blind woman at the Picasso exhibit what she's missing, the bagel-lover will have a hard time converting the uninitiated. The allure of the fresh, well-made bagel, alas, defies verbal explanation. And yet despite this handicap, in recent years the bagel has been popularized across the nation, a development which culminated...
...important to understand that the Church is a spiritual institution and human, too," Landry said...
...have to have gone through it to understand it," Grimmelmann says...
Albright, who is on a first-name basis with Primakov, was nevertheless wary. "Yevgeni, I hope you understand where our red lines are," she warned. "The only thing we're going to accept is unconditional Iraqi compliance." The one bone Moscow had thrown Saddam was to lobby for Iraq in the Security Council, Primakov assured her. "I entered into no obligations on behalf of anyone else...
...haunted by the Russian experience: when Mikhail Gorbachev started tinkering with the Soviet system in 1985, his communist empire came crashing down. It is impossible for a dictatorial system to survive when people openly question the government's policies. To evaluate an adversary's stand correctly, we have to understand his fears. ANGELO A. DE GENNARO San Antonio, Texas...