Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise. In a sense, a degree of healthy cynicism may prove to be the attitude under which controversial countries can best conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed Wilson's dream...
...with Russia is understood it will become apparent to all but the willfully blind that there is no hope of peace in a policy which plays into the hands of Russia's ideological strategy. The program may also be a target for some American conservatives who do not understand that the American identification of democracy with free enterprise is a luxury which Europe cannot afford. There is no possibility of saving freedom in Europe except by the support of political forces which stand to the left of American liberal thought...
...communicate state secrets to Soviet Russia. He was the sixth defendant convicted in the spy case. With no visible flicker of feeling he listened to Justice G. F. McFarland's scathing words: "I am not going to lecture you. You are too intelligent, even brilliant, not to understand fully why you are here." The sentence: five years in Kingston Penitentiary...
Harlow's statement that the team will start to improve rapidly after its narrow escape against the Tigers is not hard to understand. His Varsity squad has now passed its strongest early season test, and should profit considerably by its mistakes against the Orange and Black...
...Where are the representatives of the working class up there?" Before the chairman could stop him, he had added: "It is only the poor who understand the poor. And we are never going to win an election until we get the industrial voters on our side...