Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody in the North understands this business." The drawl was unmistakable, straight from South Carolina. "You all seem to think integratin' niggers is like mixin' paint. You just pour in two pots and stir long enough and it comes out another color. And you can't understand why we'd object to the color of a man's skin, so you think we're all hypocrites. You act like you thought if you just talked long enough, and maybe sent some paratroopers to help talk, eventually we'd start getting' along with the niggers. You don't understand there...
...that's not it. A redhead looks different, but no kid over ten holds that against her. Maybe in the North that's all there is to it. Just black skin. Maybe that's why Northerners talk so much about tolerance. Maybe that's why a Northerner can't understand the South, because he's never known a Southern nigger...
...Andrés Requena, editor of an anti-Trujillo newspaper, was gunned down in another Manhattan apartment. Last year Jesús de Galindez. author of an anti-Trujillo book, disappeared, and all signs pointed to another assassination. All the while Trujillo complained that he could not understand his bad publicity abroad...
...rebellion against Moscow, the man with peasant roots and romantic flair could draw on his people's patriotism; when he needed strength to subdue his own turbulent people, the practiced conspirator and Marxist dialectician could draw on Moscow police methods. If more of the world could understand the brutality of this ideological alliance-which persists despite very real political rifts-Communism everywhere would have a tougher time wrapping itself in national flags...
Story or not, thousands of people crowded the Malls of the Scandinavian countries where indoor facilities were too small for his concerts. "You just have to introduce your songs a little slower, and sing a little slower," he said and probably they don't understand a lot of the words. But still, thirty to forty thousand people every time...