Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship there are no signs of acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World...
...Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people march forward, they are bound to stumble. But we have gone forward in this...
...Moscow World Youth Festival inquired about the "degenerate American comic-strip and rock-'n'-roll culture," top-ranking Red novelist and Propagandist llya Ehrenburg spoke mildly, once again showed himself to be an indicator of the changeable Soviet climate: "Whoever asked that question doesn't understand American culture, which has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll or comic strips. American culture is represented by Whitman, Dreiser, Hemingway^ and other men of genius." Continued the many-faced Ehrenburg, who toured the U.S. in 1946, roasted it for its slums and racial tensions: "In my voyages...
...Shrine. "It was while I was in a sort of coma," says Roman Catholic de Borse. "that I kept hearing ' the word 'Lourdes.' I tried to tell one doctor, but he couldn't understand me. Next morning I finally got it over to another doctor. At first they opposed me at every turn, and the airline companies weren't any better-they were afraid I'd die on the plane. And I had no money. But then there was another kind of miracle: a woman stopped my priest, Father Vaughan, in the street...
...commit ourselves to Thee . . . confident that Thou are working more wisely and more powerfully among us than we understand...