Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heartily sick of this talk of Russia and the democracies not being able to understand each other. Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe. . . . They are ... keen of intellect, devoid of truth, moral precepts, ethical standards, and humanitarian motives...
...Reds had been isolated on the kind of issue every French voter can understand-an effort to thwart the will of the electorate. Observers wondered whether Duclos would try again this week when the name of Edouard Daladier, who was also elected, comes...
...Gets Boring." I tried to explain that according to our ideas of democracy, peoples should be allowed to do things as they wanted, not as someone else thought was in their interests. Neither Morozov nor the Major understood. Even after the sixth vodka they didn't understand. These Russian counterparts of Britain's Indian Civil Service saw things with eyes so different that they could be worried only by the possibilities of a major conflict with America. When brought right down to it, they were frustrated because the Poles, many of them, did not seem to appreciate...
Once Emily fired a teacher two hours after hiring her, because the woman told a pupil: "I just don't understand how you can have reached your age without learning this." At Opportunity, ignorance was always an excuse-if the student tried to get over it. In every room, Emily posted a slogan...
There are only faint evidences that MacMurray may eventually get the girl (Anne Baxter). But no one really cares very much. The important relationship is between Cowpuncher MacMurray and stallion-two untamed, indomitable critters who have occasional differences but always understand one another. At the fadeout, cowboy and girl stand side by side under a brilliant Western sky, their eyes softly glazed with a love that is plainly directed at the horse...