Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisest in continental Europe understand this, said Spaak in a lecture prepared for Wellesley College...
...great trouble is that people do not always understand the United States," said Admiral Arthur Radford, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of the Quemoy crisis last week. "Within my lifetime there have been three occasions when the enemy got the impression from the press we were so divided that we could not get together. The Germans got that impression in World War I, and the Germans and Japanese got it in World War II, and the Communists got it in Korea. They were mistaken...
...still looks much like a college sophomore with his horn-rimmed glasses and windswept shock of blond hair. In recent years he has left the family sailing much to gregarious Rod. instead spends his spare time painting or studying French and philosophy. Explains his wife: "He likes yachting people, understand. He just thinks there are other serious things in his life...
Donner admits he does not fully understand the reasons for the small-car vogue, but he is in no rush to order basic changes in G.M.'s product line. "I don't know for sure what it^ means, but I can tell you this-before we move at G.M., we will be sure. What would you do if you were Chevrolet and had the responsibility for selling a million and a half cars a year...
Authors who "understand women" may do so because they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope...