Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't know what it was," Mitchell said later, "but I shouted for them all to get back away from it and I started running toward them. When I was only about 40 yards from them there was a terrific explosion." Mrs. Mitchell and the five children were killed...
...Most suffer from malaria. Each tenant tills up to 15 hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...ministers have had to learn all the way. They came without experience from political obscurity in the Fascist era to posts of heavy responsibility. They have displayed shrewd political talent, but they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk...
...News, Stricker told the subcommittee: "In this particular class that I attended, all the instructor did was to put percentages on the blackboard. I am sure that members of the class don't known arithmetic. Well, to discuss the Economic Report of President Truman with people who don't know how to count, they ought to teach them about the Constitution...
Strand, again in his statement charged. "He (Spitzer) supports the charistan Lysenko in preference to what he must know to be the truth." Spitzer answered. "I did not support Lysenko in my letter in any case, it is aboard to reason that agreement with a Soviet scientific theory is evidence of adherence to a party line...