Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simply precious," I told her. "By the by, I understand you've taken up yogi...
...also understand you're quite an intellectual," I said...
...poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that is not hard to understand. Even in this cautious rewrite, the story often sounds like a blatant apology for crooked labor leaders...
...Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand is why anyone should want to call this diversion the best novel of the year...
...also attacked "the American feeling that we must propose compromises in any negotiations." He pointed out, "we are always mystified when the Soviets react haughtily to our proposals; we do not understand that they are not satisfied with normalcy and that they often see our proposals as signs of weakness...