Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists seemed ready to hurl their inevitable charge of a capitalist plot to form an anti-Soviet western bloc. When a reporter for Moscow's Tass News Agency asked Léon Blum whether he really wanted to resurrect the Second International, Blum replied he did not understand the question. The Tassman rushed from the room, in a huff, slamming the door...
...Elections would soon be held in Poland. But they would be democratic "in the sense that the Poles understand democracy, and not in the Western sense." This was perhaps the first time that a fundamental difference between the Russian and Western meanings of "democracy" had been proclaimed in an official statement. It served notice that the Yalta agreement on "free and unfettered elections" was also Yaltese doubletalk...
...answered, 'That's just what I don't understand. How do you do that...
...college heads sent Professor Cole packing off to Maine to write a text on physics and the modern world, precisely because he was an amateur in the subject. They guessed rightly that the freshmen would understand it better if a nonscientist wrote it. Professor Cole compressed a summer's reading into some 100 pages, which the Physics Department promptly approved; he thought the assignment "a lot of fun." He is the kind of man who, when he accepted a post as visiting lecturer at Yale, spent the time commuting from Amherst teaching himself Spanish...
Newspapers then were few and bad; the public paid up to a shilling a print for what were, in effect, editorial cartoons. George III complained that he "could not understand" Caricaturist James Gillray's pictorial attacks on him. The King would have had to be stupider than history has made him to miss the venom of Gillray's cartoon showing "Farmer George" sleepily sloffing up a soft-boiled...