Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless a minority had a right to express and to advocate its views, the democratic process as we understand it here in America would cease to exist and those in power might remain there indefinitely and make impossible any substantial changes in our social and economic system...
...only one-tenth as efficiently as American mines. Turkish farmers still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged on a long sofa, she told...
...University people frown on non-scholarly work and no field more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What can I do? I'am not a socialist nor a Catholic, and they are in power...
Remarkably many of the people did speak English. Unfortunately grocery stores were the only places where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
...understand," said a Berlin journalist, "that America won't waste planes as long as trains run into Berlin. But aren't you going to do anything with Berlin now that...