Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professed to be a happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
...such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide what can and should be done. If the Chinese Communists are illiterate in the language of international diplomacy and decency, we will have to draw them a picture that they can understand. The important thing now is not to make a clever move on the chessboard of chicane, but to resolve upon a rescue...
...Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
This was the deadly sin, punishable by Hollywood's defender of the faith, Louella O. Parsons. Wrote Louella last week in her Hearst gossip column: "This is the first time I have ever publicly spanked Judy, but I can't understand her attitude after all that has been done...
...Hospital, knew that he was going mad. He had broken down in tears at a medical meeting; he had begun talking to himself in public places; his wife had already made arrangements to send him to an asylum. His circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers with a knife, plunged them "into the corrupt and rotting darkness" of a corpse...