Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seeing that complex subjects like the Balkan peace treaties are told clearly, so that readers who are not experts in foreign affairs will understand them...
...number un," the Duke said, holding up one finger. "First you play around . . . just a few riffs" (the Duke made guitar-strumming motions). "Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word for it. Jazz...
Nobody-least of all her teachers-could understand how that Traubel girl managed to get any education at all. Even the teachers assumed that Helen would be a singer; sometimes they'd ask for a song. Helen would sing Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland; if any boy groaned, "I'd bounce him on the head as I went by." When she got too far behind in her studies Father Otto hired a tutor, told her to "kindly stuff this little goose." Says Helen Traubel today: "I may be a numskull scholastically, but what I remember of my family...
...apparently Marquand's as well. B.F. is kindly, practical, knows how to get along with people and make money. His thinking never goes deeper than: "Any boy has a chance in America if he only sees the picture ... if he only sees the picture." He never does understand why Polly should want to ditch the Yale-bred, well-to-do childhood sweetheart she is engaged to and marry dimeless, academic New Dealer Tom Brett...
...adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot of the Democrats has been their inability to understand the problems of business or to appreciate the importance of those problems to the community...