Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration understand U.S. policy that way? If it did, it had never dared say so. No one yet-outside the military leaders, who are listened to less attentively in times of peace-had made it clear. And so the Navy had to grope...
...seems a simple duty for all Westerners to meet them in a benevolent spirit, to try hard to understand their motives, and to decipher their words and deeds in the best sense we can. Very much is in the game for everybody, and for us in Europe, everything...
...lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...
...equivalent of ITMA's appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they could speak in pantomime, and De Ferrari could understand them...