Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...softening and vitiating duty of the occupation in Japan. They were scared at first. In some places, they abandoned positions that seasoned troops might have held. But in a land and among a people that most of them dislike, in a war that all too few of them understand and none of them want, they became strong men and good soldiers-fast. Quite literally overnight they learned all there is to know about sticking, fighting, killing and dying. The business of soldiers is not to die but to live, and they are learning to do that, too. I have seen...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
Judge Hand went further. The fact was, he thought, that the Communist conspiracy was a perfectly clear danger, even back in the summer of 1948 when the eleven were indicted. Said Judge Hand, with a horrified backward look at such contemporary incidents as the Berlin blockade: "We do not understand how one could ask for a more probable danger, unless we must wait till the actual eve of hostilities...
Replied the New York Times, ". . . Whether we do by now understand the Asians or not, we do by now understand Communism." Which was more, apparently, than could be said of Pandit Nehru...
When Paulette wandered off the road to the quiet hamlet of Saint-Faix, she was given shelter by a peasant family. They made a home for her, but they could not understand how much she needed warmth and reassurance. Only Michel, the youngest in the family, understood her fierce affection for dead little animals. It was he who suggested their secret game. They buried dead moles, rats and lizards beneath improvised crosses, a ceremony which somehow consoled Paulette. To get more crosses, they began raiding the cemetery and the church. With covetous eyes, they examined the crosses, trying to decide...