Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe at the time of the election and I can tell you that, as a result, a new feeling of confidence in the United States swept across Europe. They understand now that the United States will be a progressive and liberal influence in the world, that the United States will be sympathetically understanding in the aspirations of the people of Europe. Our moral influence has increased...
...left, a group of seven elderly American women near the stove buzzed with conversation. "What next?" said one, through the black veil pulled tightly under her chin. The others shrugged. On the first lap of a world tour, they had taken a week out to visit Peiping. "I understand Bangkok is nice," said another hopefully...
...Provincetown blonde wanted to show me the Village, and I showed her Palmer Stadium. She wanted to know why Harvard never carried the ball. It was too much to explain to her. She never did understand that Art Hyde, despite getting a rough going over, was buzzing the Princetons like a fighter plane after a flock of heavies. She couldn't comprehend either that it was possible to make every mistake in the game, and still remain a team...
...Harry Hopkins, according to Sherwood, was sick of "those Goddamn New Dealers." In this period the economy needed no shot in the arm. But even in 1946-48, the demise of New Dealism seemed definitely to be on the way; and it was difficult for the objective observer to understand the unpopularity of a public policy which had done so much for the masses. As we look back now, it may well be that what was interpreted as a repudiation of New Deal or Keynesian economics, upon which it was largely built, was in fact merely a registering of wartime...
...Peter Faneuil, warming his toes on the hearth one evening in 1740, decided things in Boston had gone far enough. Not the British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...