Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understand this system, especially in the satellites, we must realize that it is the only education that has been available in these countries for a decade and that the entire educational set-up becomes the most important media of overall propaganda in the hands of the regime...
...their orange juice, left it on the counter and walked out. "If the Vice President of the U.S. can have a meal in my house when he is in Ghana," said Gbedemah, who had entertained Vice President Nixon during his tour of Africa last spring, "then I cannot understand why I must receive this treatment at a roadside restaurant in America...
...week's end the U.S. had not only won back but gained ground in Ghana-and in Delaware. "I hope," said Minister Gbedemah as he flew home, "that the people of Ghana understand that there are very few people in the U.S. who act that way." And the restaurant manager got word from the Howard Johnson people that he must, henceforth, serve "anybody who comes to our doors"-quite an order for segregation-minded Dover...
...What I can't understand," muttered one London art critic last week, "is that here's a nation that has just launched the first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old." Said a gallery manager: "It's like opening up the pages of an issue of Studio from the Edwardian era." The occasion was the first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists...
...happy clown, a sometimes sophomoric cutup who delights in sticking his head out of the team bus and tying up traffic on the way to a game with his piercing imitation of a police whistle. His pretty wife Mary, a onetime Charleston, W. Va. telephone operator, cannot understand why everyone does not love him. Home from an afternoon of fidgeting in the ballpark, Lew is a fond father who likes to stretch out in the living room and turn the hi-fi to blasting-level for Dixieland or "grand ole opry" records. He amuses his children-Lewis Kent, 6, Madge...