Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans found the islanders' simple wants hard to understand. Through an interpreter, Commander Harold Grieve asked Chief Juda if timbers from Bikini's houses, for sentimental reasons, should not be transported to Rongerik. The interpreter answered: "He says, as the English would put it, 'Do you not think it would be like carrying coals to Newcastle...
Finally, there is some doubt that the primitives really understand the force of progress. Already they have asked in hopeful innocence of atomic force: how long, after the Bomb drops, before we can return to Bikini? "I suppose," says a baffled AMGman, "that eventually we'll have to load a few alaps aboard a plane and show them why they cannot...
...tail section was five and a half stories above my head Later, I was discussing this new plane with an airline's president who listened to my enthusiastic account and said: "It's a great ship, but it's already obsolete." Airmen are hard to understand...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...
...clearer idea of Yes than those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...