Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understand," I replied, switching off my hot plate. "Actually, I'm leaving...
...dispute in the dusty Ashanti capital touched a crucial Commonwealth question, a question of which Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies observed recently: "Perhaps we do not always understand that 'the rule of law' and 'the rule of Parliament' can be separately stated in words but are not easily separated in fact. Self-government is not only a political conception. It is a legal conception. In short, I don't believe there can be any form of parliamentary self-government without a recognition of the rule...
Drumbeat Repetition. The old National Catechism phrased its lessons in adult language, relied on drumbeat repetition to teach difficult concepts that children later might grow to understand: "Was the Blessed Virgin preserved from original sin? Yes, the Blessed Virgin was preserved from original sin. This is why we say that she was conceived without sin." The new catechism's verse presentation is designed for emotional appeal...
Gradual Truth. Conservative Catholics have argued that the new method might teach children harmful "speculative tendencies." Protested one pamphlet: "Give the children the proper words. Later they will understand." The Holy Office finally agreed: "There cannot be gradual teaching of the truth...
...easy to understand that, when the unflagging, disarming American charm met Dylan's professional charm, it caused a general melting fudge of a sticky, syrupy, irresistible fluid, impossible for such as us: raw from the harsh Welsh backward blacknesses." To his "wide-open-beaked" poetry readings all over the U.S.. Dylan gave "the concentrated artillery of his flesh and blood, and, above all, his breath. I used to come in late and hear, through the mikes, the breath-straining panting . . . booming blue thunder into the teenagers' delighted bras and briefs. And I thought, Jesus, why doesn...