Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explaining their attitude, Southerners expressed fears of a Catholic spoils system, with "Catholics getting all the jobs." Other reasons were vague ("I just don't understand Catholics") or fantastic ("I wouldn't want the Pope running the country...
When Stryguine awoke the next day, he began cursing his guards and the Soviet Union. As his guards tried to silence him, he cried out in English, "I'm not the traitor. It's you fellows who are. Talk in English so everyone here can understand what you are saying!" He screamed to bewildered nurses to call the Burmese police and army, that he needed protection, begged them to "call War Office 130," the telephone of Burmese army intelligence...
...defense of the subcontinent (TIME, May 11). "We do not propose to have a military alliance with any country, come what may, and I want to be clear about it," Nehru said. He was all for settling mutual problems and living in peace with Pakistan, but "I do not understand when people say we must have a common defense policy." He added, ingenuously: "Against whom...
...fellow lights up another cigarette and takes a deep puff, as if giving to understand that the question has been settled...
...hate and love. Author Roth's broadly farcical stories, The Conversion of the Jews and Epstein, are too heavyhanded; but his tender passages between young Jews in love are often a delight, and his set pieces-weddings, multiple-course dinners, the frequent inability of Jews and gentiles to understand each other though using the same language-have style and the outrageousness of life itself...