Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas backed away a trifle. The committee had no evidence that Dr. Condon was "disloyal," he admitted, just that he had been "indiscreet." But, he added, he could not understand "how the loyalty board could have cleared Dr. Condon in view of the evidence." From his bed in Walter Reed Hospital, where he is recuperating from an attack of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, he issued a subpoena for the board's files. Secretary of Commerce Harriman refused to honor the subpoena, on the ground that it would be unfair to those who had testified in confidence, and would prejudice future loyalty...
...they stand in the way of more important advisers. The President ignored a suggestion that he ought to take some of his key Cabinet members on the Caribbean cruise, took Clifford, Steelman, Connelly, Leahy and Vaughan instead. Truman wanted to relax, and with the boys he can relax. They understand him. He understands them...
...distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud of Unknowing, which you do not understand. . . . Strike upon that thick Cloud of Unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love-and do not leave it no matter what happens...
...punch a round. His weight was up to 225 Ibs. and a second chin was beginning to show. Joe rode to the House of Commons in a borrowed Rolls-Royce, listened to about 30 minutes of debate ("I got there in the middle and I didn't quite understand it. ... I couldn't hear it too plain...
Kornfeld first directed a special attack against yesterday's prohibition from Armed Forces Radio broadcasts of any reference to the adverse turn in MacArthur's campaign, but he said that the general VAM offensive will emphasize his "undemocratic methods in Japan after the war, his failure to use or understand humanitarian principles during the war, and his use of violence in the peacetime year 1932 to halt the veteran's march on Washington...