Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand people who take the view that everything is lost when something like this touches their lives. I can't help feeling sorry for them . . . We have felt all along that our babies will see some day. Even if they don't, we plan to give them as normal a life as possible...
Athenians do not quite understand his earnestness, candor and energy-they say hard-working Americans do not know how to live. To Greeks he typifies the vast and somewhat incomprehensible power of the U.S. A few days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...
...summer school student who sits studying in his Yard room two months from now, with sweat pouring down onto his book and blurring the type, with mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, and with sopping handkerchiefs tied around his neck and forehead, will not understand why Lamont Library, the College's only air-conditioned building, is closed. He will not be too impressed with the questions of finance that will prompt the administrators of the library in their meeting today. He will be hot, hot and bothered...
Finally, the author succeeds in his major purpose of making his audience understand the bull fight, its violence, bloodshed, and death. The bull is not the hopeless underdog most American think it is. In Lea's books, the bull becomes the brave animal whose fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting...
...conducting, Arthur Fiedler knows that his music has a proper place in Boston, just as much as Koussevitzky's had. Says he: "I have no use for those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very...