Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in fairness and in a fair trial, but I do not believe in ignoring facts. How the four jurors who voted against conviction could choose to ignore those three proven facts of the case is much more than I can understand. What did they want before they voted for conviction? . . . Maybe some gremlins from the Kremlin used Hiss's typewriter, without his knowledge, of course...
...sincere description of how he became a Communist there was revealed the pitiful effects of Communist tactics and dialectics on a man of integrity and idealism ... No humane man could possibly fail to understand how Mr. Davis grew bitter and resentful, but to join the Communists as an agency for the reform of our social wrongs reveals the trap into which otherwise honorable men too often fall...
...seat of Uniforce is Fontainebleau, the carved and corniced residence of French kings. Sky-blue R.A.F. uniforms stand guard side by side with French khaki. British and French are making honest efforts to understand each other. The Scottish reel, introduced by highlanders stationed at Fontainebleau, has been taken up enthusiastically by French and Belgian soldiers; Scotsmen, though, are still shocked to hear their reeling allies cry "Hola!" instead of "Och!" A correspondent last week overheard the following conversation outside a guardroom between an R.A.F. corporal and a French private...
...would not do so because I know Americans value freedom of thought. In the old days, we had no chance to think for ourselves. Now we can, and most of us have changed our minds, but democracy has come so fast that we are not yet able to understand all its meaning and spirit...
...cold, day or night. Always it is either-or, where more-or-less is a bette explanation of the facts." The semantic outlook was "frankly hopeless." The world was in such a state that even the correct use of words could not cure it. "I can hardly understand," Korzybski said, "why we have not all been locked up as insane...