Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes think the American public doesn't understand very much about diplomacy. These things are not discussed with ambassadors-and they cannot be discussed with the press. And you can quote me on that...
...voice on the other end was suave: "Even if one accepts, tacitly, you understand, a certain measure of responsibility. it remains impermissible to speak of French fleas...
...bomb, pre-strike pace. So did most of the plain people of the U.S. Though men were clubbed and shot at, though thousands were already out of work, the nation's industrial troubles hadn't yet really begun to hurt and the issues were hard to understand (see below). Besides, most people were confident that somehow or other everything would be peacefully settled...
Burlingame, the first speaker, had maintained that there are "practical reasons" for what he termed the present "lapse" in American writing. He predicted that an approaching "synthesis of science with the humanities will help produce a literature that will better enable man to understand his position in an industrialized society...
This move resulted from a discussion with executives of the Student Council yesterday. Council members told Bingham that they had received complaints from undergraduates who did not understand the unexpected rise in ticket price and then the seat allocation system as it worked for the Army game...