Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imposing sentence, Judge Francis J. W. Ford said he could not understand how a man of his "background and intelligence could descend to the level of a common thief." He reprimanded him sharply for his "thefts from veterans or anyone else, so that he could keep up with him associates in the circles in which he moved...
...that, at 66, he could still grow and learn, and willingly tackle a thorny new subject with determination and an open mind. In a practical and immediate sense, his mission to China (see below) had been a failure; but it had also been a demonstration of his capacity to understand and his willingness to lead. In history's longer-sighted eye, it might turn out to have been a success...
...chair was conspicuously empty at the feast. Syria's Minister, Ihsan Elsherif, had providentially absented himself. King Abdullah nimbly sidestepped the misunderstanding between Turkey and Arab Syria, which forms the chief bar to Arab-Turk unity. "Turkey and Syria are neighbors," he said, "much more qualified to understand the situation than myself...
Ingrid Bergman, who has won several prizes herself, won one for Photographer Charles Welbourne by managing to look like a woman who could never understand Ingrid Bergman (see cut). The International Society of Photographic Arts voted the print the Most Provocative Motion Picture Still...
...carry clear and adequate safeguards to protect complying states from the hazards of violations and evasions. ... If a nation by solemn treaty agrees to a plan for the control of atomic weapons, and agrees that a violation of that treaty shall be punished, it is difficult for me to understand why that nation cannot agree to waive the right to exercise the veto power should it be charged with