Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans is beginning...
Eisler acted as though he did not understand. Who had said this? A man who knew him-Louis Francis Budenz, ex-managing editor of Manhattan's Daily Worker. Eisler peered through his hornrimmed spectacles with a gentle smile and asked the gentlemen...
Announcing the new setup at his first press conference, Secretary Marshall also reported the overheard complaint of one of his assistants. He quoted Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "I understand already why most of Marshall's former associates have stomach ulcers...
...feudal rule the present Polish government last month made its first attempt at a free election. When the results were in, the government forces, a coalition of communists and socialists, had an almost seven-to-one majority over the opposition Polish Peasant Party. The election was not, as Americans understand the term, a free election. Not even the staunchest government supporters claim that it was. Estimates as to the degree of freedom that was allowed and evaluation of the result had complete freedom been permitted are at best a matter of highly conflicting opinions. An issue of more vital concern...
Einstein's Relativity explained (to the serious students who understand it) the gravitational field which extends throughout space. But it did not explain the electromagnetic field, which is quite as big a subject. Physicists have plotted some minor electromagnetic laws. Engineers know some rules of thumb: they deal with electromagnetics in nearly every piece of electrical apparatus they touch. But no one has come forward with one acceptable theory to explain both the gravitational and the electromagnetic fields...