Word: understand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficult thing for the Navajos to understand. The U.S. had had its chance to kill them after their surrender in 1864. Blue-clad, tobacco-chewing U.S. cavalrymen had rounded them up, marched them like cattle 300 miles from Arizona Territory to New Mexico's Fort Sumner, kept them prisoners for four years. But when the Navajos agreed to peace "from this day forward," they had been freed and helped to start a new life...
...countries . . . beginning with the U.S. and Britain. . . . Cooperation between different economic systems is possible. If, however, they do not want to improve their relations with the Soviet Union, we shall have to do without them. We shall be able to carry on ... until they regain their reason and understand that cooperation between nations is necessary. . . . We can wait. We are a patient people...
...Killers. The Court (which is composed of all men who want, for their own self-preservation, to understand violence) needed clarification of this point. One way of putting the court's question was this...
...audience greeted his remarks with stunned silence. But Yehudi at least convinced Editor Jonas that he was no traitor. Said Jonas: "If Menuhin offered us a concert today, we would all go. Perhaps it is too much to expect that those who have not experienced persecutions and camps should understand our feelings...
...believed in 1911 (so Sir Osbert was given to understand) that in the coming war the Horse would come into its own. But Sir Osbert loathed horses, especially the one he had to ride. "When the Commanding Officer used to send for me, as he often did-and, I may add, with no view to congratulating me on my efforts-this agile and vindictive beast would often set off towards him at the fastest gallop, meanwhile, by one of his tricks, causing me to measure my length in the intervening wastes of snow and sand, and there abandoning me, would...