Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate with him. Now if these words aren't plain, then it is merely because people can't understand the plain, unvarnished truth...
...Tooling along the Great West Road, Malenkov's car passed a loudspeaker van which blared: "Tell Khrushchev and Bulganin they will not be welcome here. We don't want Red murderers in this country!" But Georgy, if he could understand its message, paid it no mind. Still smiling broadly when he pulled up at the Russian embassy in London's "Millionaire's Row," he chucked the chin of one embassy tot who was waiting in the driveway to greet him, patted the head of another, aimed a last wave and grin at the cameras, and disappeared...
...Understand, I am not envious of my neighbor; I do not grudge him his good fortune. It is my sons I am worried about. For they are young and do not realize how good our way of life is. They saw only that your American machines did in one day what we have not finished doing in hundreds of years. 'Why,' they ask me, 'should we spend our lives picking at rocks which machines can remove so easily?' For several years they stayed at home not smiling with their work, but scowling at it. Now they have gone to Naples...
...understand our trustees might have to ask for certain modifications in the building code for this area before construction can start," he said...
...Eugene O'Neill the writing of Long Day's Journey Into Night was a purgation: in it he has faced ghosts that haunted him during most of his life-time and forced him to understand and reveal them to his own soul. The result is a play which, though heavy with the pain and despair and fruitless sorrow of human life, transcends all these as a testimony to the endless and inescapable power of man's love...