Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could tell you that it isn't Frankie's looks. It's the "soul" in his singing, but you probably wouldn't be able to understand...
Wrinkled, grandpappyish Eugene F. Burke, 71, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards, called the first assembly to order. "As I understand it," said he, peering over his spectacles, "we are going to try and unite all organizations ... so that we can use our economic strength where it is necessary. ... It might be a month, or six months, or a year. . . . But that organization will be built...
...least funds of any government. We send these boys out into the world and we can't pay them decent salaries. I am introducing a bill in Congress now to improve that situation." Politely Molotov protested that it was a very fine building. "But," he added, "I understand. Such things are difficult...
...inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method of allegory, with its abstract concept...
Actually such a reversal would be inconceivable to Vandenberg, who understands the impossibility of withdrawal. Did the people also understand...