Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point about Main Street was that Carol Kennicott knew that Gopher Prairie was full of philistines, but did not understand that Chanel No. 5 would never rout a gopher from its hole...
...next thing anyone knew, the hats were in her shopping bag and Nina was in the hands of some hard-eyed store detectives who decided that she had failed to go through the capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word. And no one in the store could understand Nina. So the whole argument was moved to a police station. There Nina was charged with shoplifting, ordered to appear in court next day, and released on ?5 bail...
...more likely to be intelligent than those of the unintelligent. Pauling would like to carry this proposition several steps farther. "We believe," he says, "that significant progress can be made in the attack on mental deficiency by ... fundamental research employing the most powerful techniques of modern chemistry ... to understand the causes and workings of certain abnormal molecules...
...History. After two stretches of imprisonment and banishment (one sentence was for complaining in a letter to his father of the inefficiency of the police), Herzen was wondering whether a "human being with any sense of his own dignity could live in Russia." Yet Herzen had the realism to understand, 75 years before Stalin, that an inefficient despotism is preferable to an efficient one. With a visionary eye he looked across the steppes of history and foresaw that the witless crudity of the Czar's bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly...
...loathsome women.' " How well does the key work? Dr. Stein noted with satisfaction last week that all but one of his six hag patients had left his office noticeably less loathsome than when they came in. He added: "I love these women that others find loathsome. I understand them. I'm trained to." But his account of the analytic sessions nevertheless leaves readers with the feeling that he must often have longed for a good old medieval rack or a bundle of faggots...