Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with her breezy informality by piping: "Excuse me, I have to go. My husband is calling me." Touring an American National Red Cross center with Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther, she asked if blood donors later got brandy with their coffee. General Gruen-ther told her no, added: "I understand you've got quite a brandy in Greece." Said Her Majesty: "It's dynamite...
...part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want to understand what goes on inside the atom." Then, at week's end, with the ceremonial functions out of the way, Queen Frederika started on a self-educating tour of the U.S.'s top nuclear laboratories and plants...
...That's the bit," said the Old Fox, "give them something they can understand Keep it going. Osborne, Kirby, Lewis, let's go, let it flow, let it roll, push it over, over the goal...
Elizabeth Stearns' directing shows she can make actors move into adequate enough groupings on the stage, but without any clear idea of why they are doing it. She completely fails to understand the rhythms and contrapuntal structure of Chekov's dramaturgy, which help make The Three Sisters the theatrical masterpiece it ought to be, but fails in this production...
...thoughtful physician," Dr. Rising concludes, will not think of abandoning these useful (and often lifesaving) drugs, but he "will not lightly prescribe [them, and] will exert every effort to understand . . . the harmful effects that may result from their...