Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born. Well, you just wait a bit and Pete'll be in. He played it back before it had a name-back when they was discovering it. That is, they had something all the time, only didn't know, which is a thing a lot o' people don't understand; and they begin to believe this feller or that invented it-and it ain't so, cause I know better...
...monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence and lawlessness of any kind on their part, just as much as against arrogant greed by the rich...
...years of experience. "He likes young people," says King's Rector Charles Bosanquet, "and has sympathy for them. But he is a wise old man who has a true sense of what are the real values of life. Without appearing to preach, he does tend to make students understand that there are some things it is silly to do and some that are worth doing...
...main evil of the age? Says Bachelor Williams: "Overpopulation. I don't understand why nothing is done to stop this spawning of children in families that can't even afford to have one. It is a crime-an awful crime...
...embarrass the subject, and uses a double standard in reporting some news, e.g., carrying squibs on the doings of the town drunk, but killing the drunken-driving episode of a prominent citizen. When an editor tries to decide what to print and what to kill, he said, he "must understand that uncompromising honesty carries cruelty in its saddlebags, and that too much gentleness will help evil thrive...