Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views. The revolution necessarily was accompanied by much profiteering and injustice which Masaryk loathed so much. Then came the anniversary of his father's birth and Masaryk had to read many letters of reproach and condemnation. Many of his friends, especially those from the West, did not try to understand him. They simply rejected him. And so, in a minute of great mental contradictions, he took to the fatal decision...
...Newspaper men," says Art Valpey, "never seem to understand the great gap between playing and observing the game--the team is never as bad as the press makes it out when it is losing and it is never as good as the newspapers say when it is winning." Well, his boys are neither winning nor losing games this spring, but already the sportswriters are dusting off the crystal ball...
...understand why geography is being curtailed at Harvard, just at the time when it ha become generally recognized as one of the important subjects for study in colleges throughout the country," he added. "I hope the decision will be rescinded...
...then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing the river: lights all on in Chungking...
...another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...