Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost forgotten how bad it is," said Constance Mellon. "Now I understand why a lot of people leave it and why a lot of people will never come back...
Piaf (real name Gassion) tries to explain in English that when she first started singing as a spindly child in the streets of Paris "I cried . . . cried, without tears. You understand?" What she means is that she bawled her songs. Even now, France's famed chanteuse needs no microphone; she sings out, nasally, a little as if she were singing through a papercovered comb. But with her infallible feel for beat and flow, Piaf fans find it pretty exciting...
...takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York, I like. You understand...
...have nothing to fear (from communism) so long as we come to understand the nature of our own culture and remain free to estimate coolly the forces which account for the virulent vitality of Communism in certain quarters of the earth," he stated...
...fully understand the nature of this controversy, which has been raging in the newspapers off and on ever since last April, it is necessary to go back to 1940 when St. Benedict's Center was founded. Among the four people who started it as a religious and social meeting place for Catholics from Harvard, Radcliffe, and neighboring colleges were Christopher Huntington '32, then assistant dean of Freshmen, and Avery Dulles '40, son of Senator John Foster Dulles...