Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was language that the men in the Kremlin might understand. Less understandable was the bland remark of President Harry Truman. The prospects for peace, said the President, were not only good, they were excellent...
Goldwyn: I understand it's twenty-five thousand you want...
...strike spread; customs officials, tax collectors, food ration officers and criminal court clerks walked out. Schuman made the strikers understand that he was not going to be pressured into compliance...
Tolstoy edited and published a household magazine, wrote a play for the family, and once, during his courtship, even an opera ("You have to invent [the words] yourselves," he told the household gravely: "only see ... that they sound Italian, and, most important, that nobody understands them"). He loved his school, where he personally taught the children of his farm hands; but most other forms of "progress" horrified him-e.g., the novelty of using kerosene in lamps instead of good old fat, the creation of a Russian parliament ("perfectly absurd"), colleges and careers for women (except where "help is needed...
...been riled by the behavior of some U.S. members of the anti-aftosa commission. Some of them (one U.S. official described them as having a "Texas mentality") had scoffed at their well-educated but poorly paid Mexican colleagues. Few of the Americans bothered to learn Spanish, few tried to understand Mexican temperament...