Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin just an opportunist, saying and doing what seems best - for him - at the moment? Many Americans believe that, and thereby lose an opportunity to understand what threatens them. Stalin's line shifts. Sometimes he acts like a flaming revolutionist, sometimes like a good fellow who just wants to get along. The latter aspect is especially prominent in interviews given by Stalin over the years to visiting writers from the West. The confusion adds up to the "inscrutable Stalin," the man nobody knows. This misconception about Stalin is one of the most important facts of world politics today...
...exclusively American law," he warned, "can only be regarded as a warning to our associates in the trials that no commitment of the President or of the military authorities . . . has,finality [without] the approval of this court." On the other hand, he added, "our allies are more likely to understand and to forgive any assertion of excess jurisdiction . . . than our enemies would be to understand or condone any excess of scruple...
...done with their policy of strict neutrality." "Yes, yes," said the newcomer. "We have few natural resources, but we must develop specialized industries and skills as the Swiss have," said the oldtimer. "Like the Swiss we must work hard to cultivate our lands and nourish our herds. Do you understand?" "Yes," said the newcomer, "all but one thing." "And what is that?" "Why didn't Moses keep on walking till he got to Switzerland...
...surprised students of Olivia de Havil-land's case history more than her 1946 marriage to Marcus Goodrich. Hollywood knew little about him, except that he had written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...
Harvard's white-haired Sumner Slichter, an economist whom businessmen understand, thought that profits were not really high, although he conceded that they might look that...