Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcing the gifts, Pusey said, "The sentiment of the Aga Khan and his son, Sadruddin, in thus fostering the growth of understanding between the East and the West is one we all deeply share. Certainly, all peoples around the world need to know and better understand the cultural heritage of those who are our neighbors in the modern...
...from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness ... it can also give us all a new way of life." He spells out both...
...family, she was barely five when she refused to eat sugar because French front-line soldiers in World War I were deprived of it. At 14, she dispensed with socks because the children of the poor could not wear them. As a young schoolteacher, she flirted with Marxism. To "understand" the workingman, she took a job as factory hand in an auto plant ("a decision fundamentally silly, the illusion of the Vassar girl of all lands," as one critic put it). Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never...
...want to profit by it. If you withdraw your troops from Germany, France and Britain -I'm speaking of American troops-we will not stay one day in Poland. Hungary and Rumania." His voice was scornful as he added: "But we, Mister Capitalists, we are beginning to understand your methods...
...this time, the diplomats-who, in turn, have come to understand Mister Khrushchev's methods-had already left the room...