Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite understand how this letter column is conducted. Maybe my confusion stems from the early portion of the morning in which I digest the CRIMSON'S columns. Perhaps it is because I am merely a junior and haven't really learned the ropes...
...call communism a bugaboo when ten countries with a population of over 300 million people have been overrun by the Commies," Dorgan cried. "I can't understand why we haven't got more Americans," he went on, pounding the table. "Look at men like Alger Hiss, a bright boy from Harvard Law School who turned more than 60 State Department documents over to the Russians...
...news of Russia's satellite Balkan countries. During arecent meeting with a Western-educated top official of one of the satellites, they talked in normal conversational idiom until Low asked a leading political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon your line of questioning or go away, because you know the standard clichés as well...
Inept Show. The whole filibuster fight was hard for most people to understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming...
...first half of the novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession...