Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Munoz, founder and president of the Popular Democratic Party, speaks the jibaro's language. His friends say that he could explain the Einstein theory so that a child-or a jibaro-could understand it. His faith in the jibaros is almost mystical, but he knows they must...
...advice of the week was to avoid war by producing a dictionary of political terms, in which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
Give 'em what they understand; don't try to elevate them." Adds Jule: "You gotta write for the people . . . Art is great, sure . . . but who can sing Shostakovich...
...government of the U.S.S.R. had decided immediately to withdraw all military advisers and instructors [from Yugoslavia] on the grounds that they were in "hostile surroundings" . . . During their entire stay, Yugoslavia's attitude toward them was not only good but actually brotherly. Therefore, we are amazed, we cannot understand and are deeply hurt...
...understand you undertake to overthrow our undertaking...