Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During its ten weary weeks, The Hague conference had often seemed close to failure. The Indonesians had wanted as much independence as possible, the Dutch had wanted to retain as much sovereignty as possible. But eventually the Dutch and the Indonesian delegates grew to trust and understand each other. One weekend motor trip to Namur, in Belgium, helped to break the ice; Indonesia's Premier Mohammed Hatta and the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Johan van Maarseveen, reached some important decisions chatting in their car. Explained Van Royen: "It doesn't pay to try to be too clever...
Schmidt, who had been unable to get a job while the law debated his morals, was grateful, but detached, about the whole thing. "I understand the Anglo-American behavior pattern of saving face," he said cheerfully. "Very wise decision, we calls it," said the non-moralistic New York Daily News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest...
First-nighters at the San Francisco Opera Company's flossy opening night blinked at an unprecedented sight: Jimmy ("Schnozzola") Durante making his debut in an opera audience. As Manon Lescaut wore on, Durante complained to a companion: "I can't understand a thing they're saying-is the acoustics bad in here?" During intermission, Durante reported later, he rubbed elbows with socialites. "I had to rub elbows," he explained. "Nobody would shake hands with...
...unfortunate that Walter Piston's Second Suite did not go over better than it did. It is a difficult piece both to play and understand. The orchestra certainly did its part in the performance, but the audience sat on its hands until the composer went up to the podium to congratulate Mr. Munch...
...asked Lillian. "Because Janie is a little colored girl," replied her mother. It was an answer Lillian could not understand and, when she grew up, would not accept...